Virtue Quotes
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William Cullen Bryant
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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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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Bergen Evans
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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
Charles Bates
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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From virtue all happy states arise.
Gampopa
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I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.
Carlo Alban
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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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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
William Graham Sumner
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
William Ellery Channing
