Virtue Quotes
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
Ernest Renan
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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked.
Susan Wiggs
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Seneca the Younger
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Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
William Gifford
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To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
Gautama Buddha
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Reward is its own virtue.
Carolyn Wells
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
John Ruskin
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So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
Stevie Smith
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
Witold Gombrowicz
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Eugene O'Neill
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Seneca the Younger
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
Moliere
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No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
Esther Hicks
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Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts.
Edmund Morris
