You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. — William Fleming Copy Share Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy. — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
“We praise the virtues of beauty and truth, when in fact we esteem them only to the extent they are convenient and… — D.E. Sievers Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The… — Walter Russell Bowie Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization. The Almighty beareth Me witness: To act like the beasts of… — Baha'u'llah Copy Share Image
“Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“The book of Judges shows us that the Bible is not a “Book of Virtues”; it is not full of inspirational stories.… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same… — Winthrop W. Aldrich Copy Share Image
In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The Man of Power is one who presides— By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
