To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity. It also shows us about politics and corruption; and that's a fact.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man’s virtue is… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than about our 'good'. For previous… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that… — DeRay Davis Copy Share Image
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I would rather die then not be myself, because without being myself I already would have died. — Music Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But overdo it, and no… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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