Virtue Quotes
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.C. C. Colton
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.La Bruyere
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
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
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
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
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.Sir Winston Churchill
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.Henry Kissinge
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
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
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
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.Hugh Prathe
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.Francis Quarles
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.Venezuelan Prove
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
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.Greek Prove
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
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
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.Xenophon
