As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleI find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice
MontaigneOne path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JuvenalFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder
George WashingtonAnd there's one rare strange virtue in their speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short.
Fitz-Greene HalleckFrugality is the mother of all virtues.
JustinianVirtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
George CrabbeMy general thesis was that Lust should be shifted from the category of Sin to that of Virtue. [on giving a lecture on Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins]
Simon BlackburnOne of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue [on The Simpsons]
Rowan WilliamsTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonI design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio ArmaniHypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue
Duc De La RochefoucauldThere is no virtue can be sooner missed or later welcomed; it begins the rest, and sets them all in order
Thomas MiddletonSuffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole FranceBeauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George BancroftOld age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira GershwinI cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
Carl Gustav JungThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-LyttonSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea BallouThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouWhat is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul RichterExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterProsperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TacitusMoney is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn RandHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B YeatsStrength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David HareWhither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeThe virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Oliver GoldsmithVirtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward YoungEvery act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene DescartesThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira GandhiA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QuintilianRecommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van BeethovenVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaOne of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy NevillWe are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us
Hannah MoreSelf-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John HerschelTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonCome, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
Sir Thomas BrowneGood company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue
Izaak WaltonThe torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBlushing is the colour of virtue
Matthew HenryThe problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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