Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue. — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it. — Michael Ugwu Eneja Copy Share Image
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated… — James Carville Copy Share Image
If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human,… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I… — George Canning Copy Share Image
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“I mean you well, Perses, you great idiot, and I will tell you. Look, badness is easy to have, you can take… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
