Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai StevensonA New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith WhartonMany people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse KarrVirtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
George CrabbeHappiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
AristotleWhile selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all
Oliver GoldsmithI 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 JungWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao TzuCourage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya AngelouSelf-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John HerschelThough a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity
Edward EverettWe 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 MoreA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyHumility 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 AugustineThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeThe virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
Alfred JarryA "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander CockburnAffliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis AtterburyPeople may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth GaskellA noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light
George LilloPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict SpinozaTrue courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North WhiteheadAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerMoney is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn RandSometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSuffering! 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 FranceThose who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
AristotleThere is no virtue in the relationship between man and dog that does not originate in the dog
Robert BraultA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PlutarchFrugality is the mother of all virtues.
JustinianAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonWhither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder
George WashingtonModeration in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster FullerVirtue alone outbuilds the pyramids:
Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall
Edward YoungIn marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William PennEmulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
OuidaPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn WaughModesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William HazlittThe moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleOne of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy NevillDelicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Marguerite De ValoisI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George WashingtonThere is no virtue can be sooner missed or later welcomed; it begins the rest, and sets them all in order
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