From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class. — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children;… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.” — Tobin Wilson Copy Share Image
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Courage is virtue of people with inner strength. People with inner strength have confidence and self belief which paves the way for… — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. — Homer Copy Share Image
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
“What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“(since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
