Virtue Quotes
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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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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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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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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Return animosity with 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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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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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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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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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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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
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The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
