virtue

1.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

- Seneca

2.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

- William Shakespeare

4.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

- Atkinson, Brooks

5.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

6.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

- Thoreau, Henry David

7.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

- Margaret Deland

8.

Good 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.

- Pound, Ezra

9.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

- Diderot, Denis

10.

Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

- Dinesh DĘSouza

11.

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

- Browne, Sir Thomas

12.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

- Ambrose Bierce

14.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

- C. S. Lewis

15.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

- Virgil

16.

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

- Burton, Sir Richard

17.

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]

- Bible

18.

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.

- Hazlitt, William

19.

Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...

- Marquis de Sade

20.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

- Burke, Edmund