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Best Quotes about Virtue

1.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Burke, Edmund

3.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace

5.
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
Pope, Alexander

6.
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

7.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Proverb, Chinese

9.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Addison, Joseph

10.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Blackwell, Elizabeth

11.
Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras

12.
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Shaw, George Bernard

13.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Camus, Albert

14.
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
Confucius

15.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
Duncan, Isadora

17.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Lippmann, Walter

18.
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.

19.
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
Milton, John

20.
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

21.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Butler, Samuel

22.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott

23.
Virtue is the strongest shield.
Motto

24.
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

25.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Proverb, English

26.
I used to be snow white, but I drifted.
West, Mae

27.
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

28.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Thoreau, Henry David

29.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Marquis, Don

30.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Burroughs, William S.

31.
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]
Bible

32.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Antrim, Minna

33.
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

34.
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

35.
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.

36.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

37.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Swift, Jonathan

38.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.
Virtue is a sure anchor.
Motto

40.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.
If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.
Philokalia

42.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

43.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.
Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.
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

46.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.
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

48.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Howe, Edgar Watson

49.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Shaw, George Bernard

50.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]
Bible


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