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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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
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The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original 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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PATRIOTISM. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends 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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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
