It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

The weapon of the Republic is terror and virtue is its strength.

The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions but by his habitual acts.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness of virtue and sin among the members of a society.

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement in the overwhelming virtue of diversity these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

In science a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity whereas in religion having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people and mention how important it is that compassion is the key that it's the sine-qua-non of religion people look kind of balked and stubborn sometimes as much to say what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Many have said of Alchemy that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

In the intellectual order the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue no matter whether he be a prince or one of the people.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time and the drawback if you do not give it your full attention of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.