Virtue Quotes
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When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
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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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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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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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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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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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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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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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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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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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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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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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Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.
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There is explosive power in virtue.
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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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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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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
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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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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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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.
