“The essence of life and glory lies in the pro-creation and re-enactment of heroic and virtuous meaning.” — VD Copy Share Image
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. — Plato Copy Share Image
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers 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
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of… — Plutarch 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
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products,… — Norm Phelps 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
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin 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
My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is… — Indra Sinha Copy Share Image
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
