| "natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Cicero |
| "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust." »Vicomte de Valmont |
| "The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete." »Confucius |
| "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order." »Francis Bacon |
| "natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study." »Francis Bacon |
| "Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo virtue is at hand." »Confucius |
| "virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine." »Ruth Fulton Benedict |
| "The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it." »Confucius |
| "Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." »Francis Bacon |
| "I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person." »Socrates |
| "virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue." »Socrates |
| "Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The |
| "Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner |
| "The unnatural, that too is natural." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Children are our most valuable natural resource." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience." »Thomas Haliburton |
| "I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich |
| "Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." »Lisa Hoffman |
| "A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." »Mark Twain |
| "Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." »Unknown |
| "It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon |
| "I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly." »Martin Luther |
| "Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you." »F Scott |
| "Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest..." »Roger Zelazny |
| "Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." »Aeschylus |
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