Virtue Quotes

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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 Balzac

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois

Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
Lucanus

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
Sir Henry Wotton

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues
Giuseppe Mazzini

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand

What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward Young

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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-Lytton

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith

There is no virtue in the relationship between man and dog that does not originate in the dog
Robert Brault

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

We 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 More

Life 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 Gauguin

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus

If 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 Kipling

The 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 Aurelius

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson Howe

Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids:
Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall
Edward Young

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Paul Tillich

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I 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 Jung

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
Hippocrates

Creative thinking may mean simply the realisation that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf Flesch

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy Nevill

So 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 Dahlberg

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Galbraith

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue
Izaak Walton

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal

Poetry 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 Fry

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue
Juvenal

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
Montaigne

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Oliver Goldsmith

No 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 Henry

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy Graham

Humility 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 Augustine

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai Stevenson

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian

Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel Defoe

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah More

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
George Crabbe

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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