The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleCapitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
J A SchumpeterConstancy is the complement of all other human virtues
Giuseppe MazziniThe 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 TaylorVirtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
Sir Henry WottonCreative thinking may mean simply the realisation that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf FleschIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnProsperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TacitusVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaConfidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
MontaigneFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder
George WashingtonHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B YeatsVirtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John MiltonLove is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn RandParents 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 FullerModesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
GalbraithFaith 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 TolstoyIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-LyttonTrue courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe 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.
AristotleFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusEvery day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord ByronGood 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 PoundA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyWhen 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 BalzacIt is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca WestWhat is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SenecaA 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 PaineEvery act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorCome, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
Sir Thomas BrowneMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireA virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel ButlerPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict SpinozaChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawHumanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam SmithAffliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis AtterburyDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonWhither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusThough 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 EverettI 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 JungPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn WaughSuffering! 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 FranceModeration 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 DisraeliOf 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 BaconHumility 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 AugustineThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouManners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney SmithThe virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Oliver GoldsmithEmulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
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