Quote by Émile Souvestre

“Those whom he kept for a month became his friends for life. They did not call themselves friends; they did not praise him to…

— Ayn Rand

“Well, if I cannot be sensible and popular at the same time, then I will always choose the virtue rather than the friends.”

— Thomas Cullinan

“She certainly didn’t have the ability to share her ability with the envious ones—she could only share the products of her ability. They gladly…

— Orson Scott Card

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”

— St. Ambrose

“Nor could she help feeling, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

“every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

“Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.”

— Anonymous

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie