A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Vice is a wonderful thing," Catherine said. "The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle. — John Adams Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent… — Plato Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue. — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. — John Milton Copy Share Image
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. — James Jones Copy Share Image
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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