Virtue Quotes

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.