Virtue Quotes
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We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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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?
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The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.
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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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I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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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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In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
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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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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked.
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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
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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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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
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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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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
