Virtue Quotes
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
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
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
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.Henry Kissinge
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.Robert E. Kahn
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
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
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
Virtue is insufficient temptation.George Bernard Shaw
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.George Washington
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.Hugh Prathe
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.Johann von Goethe
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
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
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
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.The Hitopadesa
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
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
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.Thomas Paine
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
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
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
