(911 quotes found)
“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Oscar Wilde
“Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.”
Aristotle
“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge”
Voltaire
“Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness”
Confucius
“Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue”
Samuel Johnson
“Chastity - you can carry it too far”
Mark Twain
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
Max Planck
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons”
