Virtue Quotes
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.Henry Kissinge
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.Seneca
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.Francis Bacon
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.Socrates
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.Ursula Le Guin
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.Frederick Sherwood Dunn
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.- - Aristotle
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.Richard Livingstone
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.Xenophon
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Bluntness is a virtue.Allison Ling
The love of money is the root of all virtue.George Bernard Shaw
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
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
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, "The Rights of Man", 1792
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.Cornelius Tacitus
