Virtue Quotes

The hitopadesa - let this be an example for the acquisition of all...
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
Pope Gregory The Great
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
Juvenal
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
W. T. Ussery
Juvenal - one path alone leads to a life of peace: the path...
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Mae West
Voltaire - it is one of the superstitions of the human mind...
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Cornelius Tacitus
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Laertius Diogenes
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
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
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.
George Bernard Shaw
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
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch, Morals
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean Baptiste Montegut
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
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
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Ursula Le Guin
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
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
Barbara Ehrenreich
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.
Eugene Edwards
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prathe
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Cicero
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
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
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley