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
There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover. — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
