We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart. — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“The notion of good and bad is only in people's minds for there is only virtue and excess. Happiness and wisdom are… — Insidious Nocturne Copy Share Image
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the… — Keri Wyatt Kent Copy Share Image
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
