Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men… — Edward John Carnell Copy Share Image
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke 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
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the problem is, if we foreclose any public justice, then we cut off the virtuous cycle that's represented by law,… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
