Virtue Quotes

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

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.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

I'm really tired of virtue.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.