Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
