Virtue Quotes
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.Juvenal
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.Friedrich Nietzsche
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.Gay
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.Horace Bushnell
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.South
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.W. T. Ussery
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.William Coope
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.Frederick Sherwood Dunn
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.Frank Zappa
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.Matthew Prio
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.Sir J. R. Seeley
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.Joseph Smith Jr.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
