Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict SpinozaOf 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 BaconOne of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy NevillAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonTrue virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Benedict SpinozaThe 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 TawneyThere are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy GrahamThe three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry WallGood art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra PoundThe 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 TaylorWhat's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward YoungFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusSelf-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheBeauty 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 BancroftA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyA "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 CockburnThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotlePeople 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 GaskellEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerSuspicion 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 BallouFaith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo TolstoyThe 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 JarryModeration 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 DisraeliVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottLife 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 GauguinMy 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 BlackburnThose 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.
AristotleIn marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William PennTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonA 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 LilloTrue courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North WhiteheadAffliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Hannah MoreThere are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
John GibbonsCome, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
Sir Thomas BrowneHowever 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 HumboldtA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonConquest is the missionary of valoor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter BagehotTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreHumanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam SmithI don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris PasternakI 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 WashingtonMoney is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn RandVirtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson HoweExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterModesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
GalbraithIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnA thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineAnger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
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