Virtue Quotes
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.
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The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
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I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community.
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
