Virtue Quotes
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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Virtue is no empty echo.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
