Virtue Quotes
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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
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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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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
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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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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue.
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
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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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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
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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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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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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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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
