Virtue Quotes

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this...

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by h...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundat...

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the founda...

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than abo...

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only ...

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics ...

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, ...

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who p...

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who...

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them parti...

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called f...

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against ...

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...

If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectac...

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would no...

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars ...

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jigg...

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary....

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the...

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encoura...

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but th...

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not...

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his m...

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.”Waddi...

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can c...

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining r...

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue...

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the va...

And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like...

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy whe...

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, a...

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are fu...

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided...

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in ...

To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood.Once...

Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, "This thing called the Way - where does it exist?"Zhuangzi said, "The...

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to ...

There is a natural connection between virtue and happiness.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness...

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar...

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is ...

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of...

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...

the evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as...

I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, ...

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on ...

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians...

In any case, I hadn’t gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesita...