Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
