Virtue Quotes
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
Alexander Nehamas
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Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
William Gilmore Simms
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Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
Joseph Lewis
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The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
Bonaventure
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William S. Burroughs
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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."
African Spir
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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.
George Sarton
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
Ann Petry
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
Jane Austen
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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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.
Jonathan Mayhew
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From virtue all happy states arise.
Gampopa
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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.
Elton Welsby
