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Author Quote Preview Lyman Abbott Every life is a march from... Lyman Abbott A child is a beam of... Lyman Abbott Every life is march from... Marcel Achard The career of a writer is... John Adams All the perplexities, confusion and... Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid... Joseph Addison Modesty is not only an... Joseph Addison Suspicion is not less an enemy... Felix Adler Where the roots of private... Shmuel Y. Agnon I returned to Jerusalem, and... Akhenaton When virtue and modesty enlighten... Samuel Alexander For psychological purposes the most... Dante Alighieri Consider your origins: you were... Dante Alighieri Consider your origin; you were... Dante Alighieri Consider your origins: you were... William Ames Faith is the virtue by which... Barbara Amiel When virtue is at liberty, so... Henri Frederic Amiel Let us be true: this is... Kingsley Amis Self criticism must be my... Maya Angelou Courage is the most important... Maya Angelou One isn't necessarily born with... Saint Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue... Saint Thomas Aquinas Perfection of moral virtue does... Francis Arinze There is a tendency around the... Aristotle All virtue is summed up in... Aristotle Those who excel in virtue have... Aristotle What the statesman is most... Aristotle The virtue of justice consists... Aristotle Excellence is an art won by... Giorgio Armani I design for real people. I... Karen Armstrong Compassion is not a popular... Johann Arndt In short, all things that... Francis Atterbury Affliction is a school of... Saint Augustine Humility is the foundation of... Saint Aurelius Augustine The spiritual virtue of a... Marcus Aurelius Natural ability without education has... Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life... Saint Teresa of Avila God has been very good to... Irving Babbitt According to the new ethics... Thomas Babington The highest proof of virtue is... Francis Bacon Silence is the virtue of fools... Francis Bacon He that hath wife and children... Francis Bacon Judges ought to be more leaned... Francis Bacon Virtue is like a rich stone... Leonard Bacon If that form of government... Hosea Ballou Though ambition in itself is a... Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be... Honore de Balzac Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more... George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible... Natalie Clifford Barney Most virtue is a demand for... Karl Barth No one can be saved - in... Charles Baudelaire It is the hour to be... Charles Baudelaire It is time to get drunk... Max Beerbohm Humility is a virtue, and it... Ludwig van Beethoven Recommend virtue to your children... Ludwig van Beethoven Recommend to your children virtue... Ruth Benedict A man's indebtedness is not... William Bennett Sometimes we need to remind... Robert Benton I'd like to know what law... Ambrose Bierce Patience, n. A minor form of... Ambrose Bierce Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby... Ambrose Bierce Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to... Ambrose Bierce Patience - a minor form of... William Blake You cannot have Liberty in... Henry Bolingbroke The greatest art of a... Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism must be founded on... Napoleon Bonaparte Skepticism is a virtue in... Napoleon Bonaparte The first virtue in a soldier... James Bovard It is important to recognize... Christian Nestell Bovee As threshing separates the wheat... F. H. Bradley The deadliest foe to virtue... Andre Breton Dali is like a man who... Van Wyck Brooks Genius and virtue are to be... William C. Bryant Remorse is virtue's root; its... Georg Buchner The weapon of the Republic is... Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring... Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered... Buddha Virtue is persecuted more by... Thomas Bulfinch For Mythology is the handmaid... Edmund Burke All government, indeed every human... Edmund Burke Whilst shame keeps its watch... Edmund Burke If you can be well without... Edmund Burke But what is liberty without... Edgar Rice Burroghs Were there no desire there... William Burroughs Virtue is simply happiness, and... Samuel Butler The function of vice is to... Samuel Butler A virtue to be serviceable... Samuel Butler Virtue knows that it is... Samuel Butler If the headache would only... Samuel Butler In the midst of vice we... Samuel Butler It is the function of vice... Lord Byron Every day confirms my opinion... Lord Byron In England the only homage... George Byron Every day confirms my opinion... Albert Camus Virtue cannot separate itself from... Thomas Carlyle Secrecy is the element of all... Robert Cecil Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal... Miguel De Cervantes Virtue is the truest nobility. Miguel De Cervantes Modesty, tis a virtue not... Nicolas de Chamfort Man may aspire to virtue, but... Chanakya If one has a good disposition... Chanakya There is no austerity equal to... William Ellery Channing No power in society, no... John Jay Chapman Good government is the outcome... Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is... Gilbert K. Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of the... Gilbert K. Chesterton Love means to love that which... Winston Churchill The inherent vice of capitalism... Winston Churchill Socialism is a philosophy of... Marcus Tullius Cicero Glory follows virtue as if it... Marcus Tullius Cicero Virtue is a habit of the... Marcus Tullius Cicero Natural ability without education has... Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational... Marcus Tullius Cicero We should not be so taken... Marcus Tullius Cicero Honor is the reward of virtue... J. M. Coetzee In its conception the literature... Edwin Louis Cole Confidentiality is a virtue of... Samuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with... Wilkie Collins Well may your heart believe... Charles Caleb Colton He that has energy enough to... Charles Caleb Colton He that is good, will... Alex Comfort We may eventually come to... Confucius Virtue is not left to stand... Confucius The superior man thinks always... Confucius To practice five things under... Confucius The firm, the enduring, the... Confucius He who exercises government by... Charles Horton Cooley When one ceases from conflict... Abraham Cowley Solitude can be used well by... Quentin Crisp Vice is its own reward. It... Caleb Cushing Here, again, as I conceive... Edward Dahlberg Nothing in our times has... Edward Dahlberg The machine has had a... Margaret Deland Self-sacrifice which denies common... Denis Diderot Justice is the first virtue of... Denis Diderot People praise virtue, but they... Diogenes Blushing is the color of... Diogenes Those who have virtue always... Benjamin Disraeli Moderation has been called a... John Dryden Let grace and goodness be the... Will Durant Every vice was once a virtue... Henry Van Dyke To desire and strive to be... Albert Einstein As far as I'm concerned, I... T. S. Eliot Twentieth-century art may start... Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also something excellent... Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a good ear, in... Epictetus If virtue promises happiness, prosperity... Euripides Silver and gold are not the... Edward Everett There is no sanctuary of... Francois Fenelon There is a set of religious... Francois Fenelon Exactness and neatness in moderation... Henry Fielding What's vice today may be... Mark Foley I am and have always been... Jean de La Fontaine Anyone entrusted with power will... Randy Forbes While many of us never knew... E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull... Jonathan Frakes I think that I've been pigeon... Anatole France Innocence most often is a good... Anatole France It is only the poor who... Anatole France The greatest virtue of man is... Erich Fromm There is perhaps no phenomenon... James Anthony Froude The better one is morally the... Christopher Fry Poetry has the virtue of being... J. William Fulbright Power confuses itself with virtue... R. Buckminster Fuller Search others for their virtue... R. Buckminster Fuller Parents are usually more careful... John Kenneth Galbraith Modesty is a vastly overrated... John Kenneth Galbraith People who are in a fortunate... Indira Gandhi Forgiveness is a virtue of the... Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one... Ira Gershwin Old age adds to the respect... Paul Getty I was brought up in an... Walter Gilbert I have the same sense of... Thomas Gold In choosing a hypothesis there... Oliver Goldsmith Tenderness is a virtue. James Goldsmith Tolerance it a tremendous virtue... Oliver Goldsmith There are some faults so... Barry Goldwater I would remind you that... Barry Goldwater Extremism in the defense of... Thomas Goodwin Let us search into the records... George Grosz The war was a mirror; it... Henry Anatole Grunwald Journalism can never be silent... Robert Hall A friend should be one in... David Hare Strength was the virtue of... Augustus W. Hare The virtue of paganism was... Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony... Rutherford B. Hayes Virtue is defined to be... William Hazlitt There is a heroism in crime... William Hazlitt To a superior race of being... William Hazlitt To think ill of mankind and... Claud-Adrian Helvetius There are men whom a happy... Robert Herrick Each must in virtue strive for... John Herschel Self-respect is the cornerstone... Theodore Hesburgh All of us are experts at... Rudolf Hiferding Value manifests itself as exchange... Gordon B. Hinckley Respect for self is the... Hippocrates The chief virtue that language... Robert E. Howard It seems to me that many... Edgar Watson Howe Virtue must be valuable, if... Victor Hugo Peace is the virtue of... Victor Hugo Virtue has a veil, vice a... Caroline A. Huling The day has gone by into... Wilhelm von Humboldt However great an evil immorality... Brit Hume Geraldo has been in Lebanon... David Hume The advantages found in history... David Hume Heaven and hell suppose two... Edmund Husserl Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore... Edmund Husserl To every object there correspond... Elizabeth I It is a natural virtue... Charles II I always admired virtue - but... Robert Green Ingersoll Kindness is the sunshine in... Silius Italicus Virtue herself is her own... Andrew Jackson Our government is founded upon... Thomas Jefferson Dependence begets subservience and venality... Thomas Jefferson There is a natural aristocracy... Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial... Samuel Johnson It is dangerous for mortal... Richard Mentor Johnson What other nations call religious... Phillip E. Johnson A constitutional democracy is in... E. Stanley Jones Character is supreme in life... E. Stanley Jones When we think of the ideal... Ben Jonson Let them call it mischief... David Starr Jordan Wisdom is knowing what to do... David Starr Jordan Wisdom is knowing what to do... Alphonse Karr Many people think that virtue... Jeane Kirkpatrick I conclude that it is a... Henry A. Kissinger Moderation is a virtue only in... Karl Kraus Morality is a venereal disease... Ninon de L'Enclos Men lose more conquests by... Ninon de L'Enclos The resistance of a woman is... Imre Lakatos Blind commitment to a theory... Jessica Lange This idea of selfishness as a... Johann Kaspar Lavater Conscience is the sentinel of... William Law God seeth different abilities and... Ninon de Lenclos Feminine virtue is nothing but... Jonathan Lethem The arts and a belief in... C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of... C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of... Georg C. Lichtenberg Virtue by premeditation isn't worth... El Lissitzky The sun as the expression of... Belva Lockwood I do not believe in sex... Lawrence G. Lovasik Cheerfulness is a very great... Emil Ludwig Many a person has held close... Robert Bulwer-Lytton Happiness and virtue rest upon... Robert Bulwer-Lytton Remorse is the echo of a... Robert Bulwer-Lytton What is past is past, there... Niccolo Machiavelli We cannot attribute to fortune... James Madison To suppose that any form of... David Mallet Affliction is the wholesome soil... David Mallet True valor, on virtue founded... David Mallet Who hath not known ill fortune... Thomas Malthus In a state therefore of great... Thomas Malthus The ordeal of virtue is to... Bernard de Mandeville Because impudence is a vice... Christopher Marlowe Virtue is the fount whence... Don Marquis Man cannot be uplifted; he... Jose Marti It is necessary to make virtue... Judith Martin Hypocrisy is not generally a... Harriet Martineau Laws and customs may be... Karl Marx Capital is money, capital is... Philip Massinger Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall... Philip Massinger Ambition, in a private man is... Jonathan Mayhew Common tyrants, and public oppressors... Mary McCarthy The Crucifixion and other historical... Christopher Meloni I'm just an actor, but if... Christopher Meloni I didn't get into acting to... Herman Melville In this world, shipmates, sin... Kelly Millar Exaggerated self-importance is deemed... Frank Miller You can't have virtue without... Jonathan Miller I became startled by the... John Milton Virtue could see to do what... Moliere Some of the most famous books... Moliere I prefer a pleasant vice to... Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue... Ashley Montagu By virtue of being born to... Michel de Montaigne The confidence in another man's... Michel de Montaigne Virtue rejects facility to be... Paul Elmer More In such a state, humility is... John Morley They act as if they supposed... Emily Mortimer So what I do now is... Lionel K. Murphy The Menzies Government, by its... Benito Mussolini It is the State which educates... Ajay Naidu I want to present interesting... Jawaharlal Nehru The person who talks most of... John Henry Newman Virtue is its own reward, and... Adela Florence Nicolson Often devotion to virtue arises... Friedrich Nietzsche What can everyone do? Praise... Chester W. Nimitz Of the Marines on Iwo Jima... Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in... George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely... Ovid No man can purchase his virtue... Robert Dale Owen Of the unjust rights which in... Robert Dale Owen There is a measure needing... Major Owens Competition is such a virtue... Major Owens The kind of society which we... Thomas Paine When we are planning for... Thomas Paine Moderation in temper is always... Thomas Paine A thing moderately good is not... Paracelsus Many have said of Alchemy... Gilbert Parker There's no credit in not doing... Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue... Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue... Boris Pasternak I don't like people who have... William Penn We are apt to love praise... William Penn In marriage do thou be wise... Petrarch Rarely do great beauty and... Max Planck All matter originates and exists... Plato Music is the movement of sound... Plato Virtue is relative to the... Plato All the gold which is under... Plato We ought to esteem it of... Titus Maccius Plautus Persevere in virtue and diligence... Plutarch The very spring and root of... Alexander Pope Know then this truth, enough... Alexander Pope Virtue she finds too painful... Alexander Pope The difference is too nice... Jane Porter Dr. Johnson has said that the... Jane Porter Nobility, without virtue, is a... Ezra Pound Good art however "immoral" is... Matthew Prior For, when with beauty we can... Matthew Prior Be to their virtue very kind... Joseph Pulitzer An able, disinterested, public-spirited... Pythagoras Virtue is harmony. Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of... Marcus Fabius Quintilian A laugh costs too much when... Quintilian The mind is exercised by the... Francois Rabelais Believe me, 'tis a godlike... Jean Racine Too much virtue can be... Jean Racine I have pushed virtue to... Ayn Rand Money is the barometer of a... Charles Revson Accuracy is to a newspaper... Samuel Richardson The Cause of Women is... Bob Riley Perseverance is a virtue that... Geraldo Rivera Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism... Maximilien Robespierre Terror is only justice: prompt... Maximilien Robespierre Again, it may be said, that... Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy is the homage vice... Francois de La Rochefoucauld Virtue would go far if vanity... Francois de La Rochefoucauld The word virtue is as useful... Francois de La Rochefoucauld We do not despise all those... Francois de La Rochefoucauld Women's virtue is frequently nothing... Francois de La Rochefoucauld The name and pretense of... Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is often laziness and... Ernestine Rose Blind submission in women is... Jean-Jacques Rousseau Virtue is a state of war... Benjamin Rush Liberty without virtue would be... Mark Rutherford Every faculty and virtue I... Marquis de Sade In order to know virtue, we... Marquis de Sade Happiness lies neither in vice... Saint Francis de Sales Reputation is rarely proportioned to... Sallust The glory that goes with... Sallust In my own case, who have... Herbert Samual The virtue of some people... Herbert Samuel The virtue of some people... George Savile Popularity is a crime from the... Friedrich Von Schlegel Every complete man has his... Friedrich Von Schlegel Virtue is reason which has... Erwin Schrodinger For a solitary animal egoism... Joseph A. Schumpeter Capitalism inevitably and by virtue... Walter Scott To be ambitious of true honor... John Robert Seeley No virtue is safe that is... Lucius Annaeus Seneca We should every night call... Lucius Annaeus Seneca Successful and fortunate crime is... Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime when it succeeds is... Nassau William Senior With respect to the first of... William Shakespeare Most dangerous is that temptation... William Shakespeare Some rise by sin, and some... William Shakespeare Virtue itself scapes not calumnious... William Shakespeare Virtue is bold, and goodness... Moshe Sharett We have forgotten that we have... George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet... George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the... George Bernard Shaw Virtue is insufficient temptation... George Bernard Shaw What is virtue but the Trade... George Bernard Shaw Virtue consists, not in abstaining... Martin Sheen I am a very conscientious... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Elegance is inferior to virtue. William Shirley My purpose is to inspire... Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail... Diogenes of Sinope Modesty is the color of virtue... Cornelia Otis Skinner Women's virtue is man's greatest... William J. Slim Moral courage is higher and a... Sydney Smith It is safest to be moderately... Adam Smith Humanity is the virtue of a... Adam Smith Virtue is more to be feared... George A. Smith The whole mystery of temptation... Sophocles The rewards of virtue alone... Baruch Spinoza Peace is not an absence of... Baruch Spinoza The endeavor to understand is... Baruch Spinoza True virtue is life under the... Baruch Spinoza Happiness is a virtue, not its... Baruch Spinoza Blessedness is not the reward... Baruch Spinoza Peace is not the absence of... Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence... Charles Spurgeon Saving faith is an immediate... Rudolf Steiner A healthy social life is found... Laurence Stern Only the brave know how to... Adlai E. Stevenson Accuracy to a newspaper is... Joseph E. Stiglitz In debate, one randomly was... Joseph Story Republics are created by the... Harriet Beecher Stowe To be really great in little... Leo Strauss If the highest things are... Eugene Sue Virtue often trips and falls... Eugene Sue Virtue often trips and falls... Danny Sugerman There are criminals who are... Robert Smith Surtees More people are flattered into... Shinichi Suzuki What is man's ultimate direction... Algernon Charles Swinburne To say of shame - what is... Tacitus Prosperity is the measure or... Jeremy Taylor Every act of virtue is an... James Thurber Speed is scarcely the noblest... Leo Tolstoy Faith is the sense of life... Arnold J. Toynbee The extinction of race consciousness... Lionel Trilling Our culture peculiarly honors the... Dalton Trumbo Dishonesty in government is the... Lao Tzu When virtue is lost, benevolence... Lao Tzu To realize that you do not... Peter Ustinov Her virtue was that she said... Robert Vaughn By virtue of believing in a... Marquis De Vauvenargues Our failings sometimes bind us... Marquis De Vauvenargues Vice stirs up war, virtue... Gore Vidal Many writers who choose to be... Leonardo da Vinci Who sows virtue reaps honor. Virgil Even virtue is fairer when it... Stephen Vizinczey The only virtue a character... Voltaire What most persons consider as... Voltaire It is one of the superstitions... Voltaire It is an infantile superstition... Voltaire Tyrants have always some slight... Horace Walpole Virtue knows to a farthing... Horace Walpole Justice is rather the activity... Izaak Walton Good company and good discourse... George Washington I hope I shall possess... George Washington Few men have virtue to... George Washington I hope I shall always possess... Evelyn Waugh Punctuality is the virtue of... Daniel Webster A country cannot subsist well... John Webster Man is most happy, when his... Frank Wedekind Virtue looks good but it only... Simone Weil Real genius is nothing else... Simone Weil In the intellectual order, the... Paul Wellstone The first task in teaching is... Mae West Virtue has its own reward, but... Edith Wharton A New York divorce is in... Alfred North Whitehead True courage is not the brutal... William Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition's... Alfred North Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition's... Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of... James Q. Wilson In the long run, the public... Mary Wollstonecraft Virtue can only flourish among... Mary Wollstonecraft Independence I have long considered... Mary Wollstonecraft Women are degraded by the... Frances Wright The sciences have ever been... Wilhelm Wundt We speak of virtue, honour... William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor... Edward Young Virtue alone has majesty in... Frank Zappa Everybody believes in something and...

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