Virtue Quotes
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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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 shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
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In the soul one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.
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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
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If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
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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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“Human society,” as C. S. Lewis puts it, “inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection."
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Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.
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That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
