Virtue Quotes
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
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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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Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.
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Virtue hidden hath no value.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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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.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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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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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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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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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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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.
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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?
