Aesthetics Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

— Sofia

Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others,…

— Marjorie Liu

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it…

— Joseph Addison

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

— Swami Vivekananda

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves…

— Aristotle

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics…

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment.…

— Frank Miller