Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Ever since I’d been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull’s-eye painted on my… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all. - Must I Paint You a Picture ” — Billy Bragg 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
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail… — Markus Heitz Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For know that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state… — Plato Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to… — John Tooby Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa 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
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
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
“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
“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
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. — Lucan Copy Share Image
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. — William Shakespeare 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
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
