Virtue Quotes
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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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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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.
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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
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Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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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 mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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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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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.
