I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a… — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful. — Duc De La Rochefoucals Copy Share Image
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions. — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe.… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless.… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I find contemporary Holocausts against other species so unbearable as to make life itself a fundamental question mark. Are we a demonic,… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“She looks very virtuous and very melancholy." "Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.” — Baroness Emma Orczy Copy Share Image
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no… — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Mistakes doesn't define what kind of person you are. Because mistakes define who will accept you in behalf of mistakes you've done. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We do not believe that any other virtue is more important than bravery” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
