Virtue Quotes

Mary wollstonecraft shelley - virtue can only flourish among equals....
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Ralph waldo emerson - the only reward of virtue is virtue the only way...
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Laertius Diogenes
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Hugh prathe - unless i accept my faults, i will most certainly...
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch, Morals
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudianus
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Sir J. R. Seeley
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 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
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis
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
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
Juvenal
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
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elde