Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues. — George Will Copy Share Image
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive… — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memberships, and so… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“[W]isdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage. In fact, you could… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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