Virtue Quotes
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
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 Aelius Aurelius
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.I. F. Stone
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.Don Marquis
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.John Dryden
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
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.Frederick Sherwood Dunn
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
The love of money is the root of all virtue.George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation.George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...Marquis de Sade, Justine
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.Cato the Elde
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.Sir Francis Bacon
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
Blushing is the color of virtue.Laertius Diogenes
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.Seneca
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.William Paley
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.Matthew Prio
