Virtue Quotes

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.