Virtue Quotes
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."
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While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
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Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.
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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
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Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.
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Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- don't exist now. And he's mad.
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.
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The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.
