The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing… — Clive James Copy Share Image
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — Plato Copy Share Image
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")” — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice. — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law. — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Baby, I can't say how the gods of virtue will judge you. But, I do know if I meet you again, in… — KM II Copy Share Image
