One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make… — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
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