Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse KarrMy 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 BlackburnExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterVirtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward YoungSuspicion 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 BallouCreative thinking may mean simply the realisation that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf FleschCapital 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 MarxAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai StevensonVirtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
Sir Henry WottonBeauty 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 BancroftThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PlutarchA 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 LilloModesty 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 HazlittThe 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 TawneyI 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 WashingtonHappiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
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 GaskellA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeStrength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David HareFrugality is the mother of all virtues.
JustinianEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaI 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 GoldwaterThere are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
John GibbonsVirtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John MiltonCapitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
J A SchumpeterThough 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 EverettAs threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell BoveeIt is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca WestHypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue
Duc De La RochefoucauldI 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 PasternakSelf-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John HerschelSuffering! 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 FranceConstancy is the complement of all other human virtues
Giuseppe MazziniThe three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry WallA New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith WhartonPeople who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
GalbraithThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleCourage 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 AngelouWe 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 RichterHuman 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 KantIn marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William PennWhile selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all
Oliver GoldsmithSelf-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesVirtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
George CrabbeLove 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 RandAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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