Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland,… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image