Virtue Quotes
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Virtue is no empty echo.
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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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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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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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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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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
