Motivational Quotes

Virtue

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

- Duganne, Augustine J.

Best Quotes about Virtue

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Jordan, David Starr

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Smith, Adam

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Baudelaire, Charles

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virgil

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Burke, Edmund

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The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Hare, David

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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Hazlitt, William

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Addison, Joseph

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Proverb, English

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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lytton, Lady Constance

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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Rogers, Will

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Confucius

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Virtue is the strongest shield.

Motto

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Camus, Albert

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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Swift, Jonathan

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Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Sade, Marquis De

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.

Pope, Alexander

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Marquis, Don

37.

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Suso, Heinrich

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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Lippmann, Walter

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Virtue survives the grave.

Motto

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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Antrim, Minna

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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Diderot, Denis

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Jung, Carl

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

His, Kuo

47.

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

Bible

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Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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