Virtue Quotes
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence, then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
