When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas PaineThe torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe virtue lies
In the struggle, not the prize
Richard Monckton MilnesExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterThose 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.
AristotleThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleThe three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry WallThe virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Oliver GoldsmithModeration in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineTrue virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Benedict SpinozaCourage 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 AngelouMoney is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn RandThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonBlushing is the colour of virtue
Matthew HenryHowever 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 HumboldtFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusSometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon BonaparteThe 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.
AristotleWe 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 MoreA 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 LilloMany people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse KarrTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreIt is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca WestConstancy is the complement of all other human virtues
Giuseppe MazziniCome, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
Sir Thomas BrowneAmbition, 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 BallouLove 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 RandOne of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue [on The Simpsons]
Rowan WilliamsThe 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 TaylorPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict SpinozaConfidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
MontaigneA child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman AbbottIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-LyttonOf 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 BaconOld age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira GershwinStrength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David HareWe 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 RichterChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnThere is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
Marguerite De ValoisI 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 PasternakA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward GibbonThough 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 EverettA 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 PaineI design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio ArmaniFaith 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 Tolstoy
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