When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore De BalzacModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisWhither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusVirtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
Sir Henry WottonConstancy is the complement of all other human virtues
Giuseppe MazziniMoney is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn RandWhat's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward YoungHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonWhat is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone
Edward Bulwer-LyttonHumanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam SmithThere is no virtue in the relationship between man and dog that does not originate in the dog
Robert BraultEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaWe 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 MoreLife has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul GauguinDisobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard ShawProsperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TacitusIf you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
(Rewards and Fairies 1910, 'If-')
Rudyard KiplingThe 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 AureliusVirtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson HoweVirtue alone outbuilds the pyramids:
Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall
Edward YoungAnger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Paul TillichThe first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon BonaparteI 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 chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesCreative thinking may mean simply the realisation that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf FleschA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonOne of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy NevillSo much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward DahlbergModesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
GalbraithGood company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue
Izaak WaltonA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PlutarchOne path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JuvenalPoetry 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.
Christopher FryVice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue
JuvenalThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene DescartesConfidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
MontaigneIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Oliver GoldsmithNo free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles
Patrick HenryThere are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy GrahamHumility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint AugustineA child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman AbbottAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai StevensonThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreVirtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John MiltonOur virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola TeslaVirtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
George CrabbeSometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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