Virtue Quotes

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr

My 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 Blackburn

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young

Suspicion 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 Ballou

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx

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

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

Beauty 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 Bancroft

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch

A 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 Lillo

Modesty 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 Hazlitt

The 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 Tawney

I 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 Washington

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
Aristotle

People 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 Gaskell

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

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
Justinian

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

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Barry Goldwater

There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
John Gibbons

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

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
J A Schumpeter

Though 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 Everett

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

I 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 Pasternak

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel

Suffering! 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 France

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues
Giuseppe Mazzini

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Galbraith

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

Courage 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 Angelou

We 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 Richter

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue'
Imannuel Kant

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all
Oliver Goldsmith

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

Love 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 Rand

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B Yeats



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