Virtue Quotes
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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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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
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Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
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The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
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Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
