Virtue Quotes
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
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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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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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Patience is not a virtue!
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From virtue all happy states arise.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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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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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
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Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.
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What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.
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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
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Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.
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If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
