Virtue Quotes
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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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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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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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
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Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
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Reward is its own virtue.
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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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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The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
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I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
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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.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
