The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of vice It may lock forever; never to be opened again” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever… — William Cabell Rives Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. — William James Copy Share Image
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible. — Jonathan V. Last Copy Share Image
Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
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