Virtue Quotes
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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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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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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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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
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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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Patience is not a 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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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
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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.
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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
