Virtue Quotes
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Charles Brockden Brown
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Moliere
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Paul Klee
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
Sue Grafton
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Cato the Elder
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Nuala O'Faolain
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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.
William Hazlitt
