When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas PaineLeave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. (La Nouvelle Heloise)
Jean Jacques RousseauA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PlutarchThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesI 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 nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy GrahamWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao TzuOne of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy NevillI 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 ArmaniModeration 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 DisraeliThe excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas HardyThe first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon BonaparteWe 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 RichterSo 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 DahlbergModesty 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 HazlittThere is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
Marguerite De ValoisAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeHappiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonI find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice
MontaigneHuman 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 KantForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira GandhiIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnTruth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward GibbonTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterTrue courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North WhiteheadAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreConquest is the missionary of valoor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter BagehotEvery act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireGood 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 PoundWhen 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 BalzacCapitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
J A SchumpeterVirtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson HoweWhither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear
LucanusOne path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JuvenalThose 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.
AristotleCreative thinking may mean simply the realisation that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf FleschIf 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 KiplingThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonThe 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 TawneyHappiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
AristotleMy 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 BlackburnAnd there's one rare strange virtue in their speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short.
Fitz-Greene HalleckHumility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max BeerbohmThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleVirtue alone outbuilds the pyramids:
Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall
Edward YoungCertainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon
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