Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Knowldeg is the mother of all virtue all vice proceeds from ignorence — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman to a mans advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes its just a sign of… — Ninon De Lenclos Copy Share Image
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing… — Mark Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
