In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument. — Mencius Copy Share Image
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who… — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We all listen to two voices. One voice leads us to our vices. The other voice leads us to our virtues. One… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image