Virtue Quotes
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
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People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
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Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
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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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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
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But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.
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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.
