Virtue Quotes
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
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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.
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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.
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
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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.
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I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
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The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
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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.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
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Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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.
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The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.
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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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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
