Virtue Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Moliere -
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
Thomas Carlyle
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
William Shakespeare -
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William S. Burroughs -
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.
Confucius -
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato the Younger -
Successful villany is called virtue.
Seneca the Younger -
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.
Estelle Ramey
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
Seneca the Younger -
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
George Washington -
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
Blaise Pascal -
Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
William Butler Yeats -
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca the Younger -
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
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We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
William Graham Sumner -
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.
Jonathan Mayhew -
Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
Evan Harris -
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
William A. Dembski -
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
Sargent Shriver -
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Sallust -
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt -
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
Euripides -
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
Wilhelm Keitel