Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice. “Through” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“holiness is not the accumulation of virtues. Holiness is being possessed by God.” — John Riccardo Copy Share Image
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous… — Julius Bate Copy Share Image
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“If we lived long enough to see the results of our actions, it may be that those who call themselves good would… — Oscar Wilde - The Critic as Artist Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and… — John R. Perry 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
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Women are, therefore, to be considered either as moral beings, or so weak that they must be entirely subjected to the superior… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Little men,” he once said, “spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
![“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]” quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/marcus-tullius-cicero-157_animus_a-thankful-heart-is-not-only-the-greates_2226548.jpg)
![“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; "these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions";[69] we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act…” quote by Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/will-durant-948_art_excellence-is-an-art-won-by-training-and_1632239.jpg)
