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
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Freedom requires virtues it does not produce and may even help undermine.” — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“Her beauty had not blinded him to her shortcomings, but perhaps it had to her virtues” — Robert Grede Copy Share Image
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for… — Casey Stengel 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
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
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
“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
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 great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova 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
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
“The virtue of Pride can best be described by the term: "moral ambitiousness." It means that one must earn the right to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
(ï' ôï) ¿.¢*è'*..ø.* ô*.ø.¢´ Every woman wants a man who respects her for her values, virtues and ethics. She wants a man… — Muniir Zero Copy Share Image
“I would like to raise them as I was. I would like for them to learn naturally, effortlessly, almost without knowing it,… — Sean B. Carroll Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“The “noble” person has a completely naïve and non-reflective awareness of his own value and of his fullness of being, an obscure… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
