Virtue Quotes
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
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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 man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
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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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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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.
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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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
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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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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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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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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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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.
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Reward is its own virtue.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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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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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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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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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
