Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down. — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
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