Virtue Quotes
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
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
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.I. F. Stone
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.La Bruyere
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Lord Macaulay
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.Juvenal
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.Confucius
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.I. F. Stone
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.Thomas Paine
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.Charles Horton Cooley
Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.William Coope
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
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
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Oscar Wilde
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
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 is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
