Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold. — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is… — Judas Iscariot Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.” — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst. — Kabir Copy Share Image
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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