none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater… — Sophie von La Roche Copy Share Image
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner… — Mark Twain 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
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
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
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
“It is easy to be a virtuous man in good times. It is easy to be judged a success when luck runs… — Sean Parnell Copy Share Image
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“...Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous.… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Sabine gave a Scoff. " I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be." In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't… — Kresley Cole 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
“As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil.… — Maitreya Upanishad Copy Share Image
I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress,… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.” — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The most passionate people are rarely known for being virtuous; but the most virtuous people are always described as passionate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize,… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
