Virtue Quotes
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.
