What 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-LyttonTrue virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Benedict SpinozaLeave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. (La Nouvelle Heloise)
Jean Jacques RousseauModeration in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineHumility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max BeerbohmThe characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
R H TawneyDelicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Marguerite De ValoisForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira GandhiThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouConfidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
MontaigneWhen we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas PaineThough 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 EverettEmulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
OuidaFrugality is the mother of all virtues.
JustinianMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltairePeople who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
GalbraithMy 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 BlackburnSelf-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonAnd there's one rare strange virtue in their speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short.
Fitz-Greene HalleckRecommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van BeethovenCourage 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 AngelouActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeOf all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis BaconTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward GibbonWe 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 RichterModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliVirtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson HoweI find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice
MontaigneModesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
GalbraithA child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman AbbottOld age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira GershwinAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerThe problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth TaylorHowever great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. [Thus speaks the great philosopher]
Wilhelm Von HumboldtThe 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 path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JuvenalAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonAs threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell BoveeSelf-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John HerschelThere are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
John GibbonsWhat's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward YoungChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaThe 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 JarryThe torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn WaughHypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue
Duc De La RochefoucauldPoetry 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 FryIt is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
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