Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
Neither Left nor Right has a monopoly of virtue when it comes to smearing opponents. — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all. - Must I Paint You a Picture ” — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honor. — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan Copy Share Image
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
