Virtue Quotes
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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
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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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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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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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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
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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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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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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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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
