Quotes about Virtue

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Votes: 8

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Votes: 6

Virtue can only flourish among equals. Votes: 5

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Votes: 5

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. Votes: 5

Great necessities call out great virtues. Votes: 4

Our patience will achieve more than our force. Votes: 4

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Votes: 4

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Votes: 4

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Votes: 4

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Votes: 4

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. Votes: 4

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Votes: 4

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Votes: 4

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Votes: 4

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. Votes: 4

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Votes: 4

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Votes: 4

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. Votes: 4

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. Votes: 4

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them. Votes: 4

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue. Votes: 4

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice. Votes: 4

Virtue is not photogenic. Votes: 3

Virtue is not hereditary. Votes: 3

Virtue is insufficient temptation. Votes: 3

Virtue proceeds through effort. Votes: 3

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. Votes: 3

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue. Votes: 3

Virtue lives when Beauty dies. Votes: 3

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. Votes: 3

Virtue is presupposed in friendship. Votes: 3

Virtue consists in fleeing vice. Votes: 3

Virtue alone is happiness below. Votes: 3

Virtue knows no color line ... Votes: 3

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. Votes: 3

Virtue is the truest nobility. Votes: 3

Virtue is not always amiable. Votes: 3

Virtue alone is true nobility. Votes: 3

Virtue which shuns, the day. Votes: 3

Virtue is no empty echo. Votes: 3

Virtue is her own reward. Votes: 3

Virtue is its own reward. Votes: 3

Virtue has need of limits. Votes: 3

Virtue has needs of limits. Votes: 3

Virtue is its own revenge. Votes: 3

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition Votes: 3

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. Votes: 3

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. Votes: 3

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills. Votes: 3

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. Votes: 3

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass. Votes: 3

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs. Votes: 3

Virtue is health, vice is sickness. Votes: 3

Virtue is indeed its own reward. Votes: 3

Virtue must shape itself in deed. Votes: 3

Virtue lies in the middle ground. Votes: 3

Virtue is too often merely local. Votes: 3

Virtue makes for a cold bed. Votes: 3

Virtue only is the true beauty. Votes: 3

Virtue alone has majesty in death. Votes: 3

Virtue is necessary to a republic. Votes: 3

Virtue that wavers is not virtue. Votes: 3

Virtue creates reputation, but action brings success. Votes: 3

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep. Votes: 3

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. Votes: 3

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. Votes: 3

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. Votes: 3

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Votes: 3

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Votes: 3

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. Votes: 3

Virtue is reason which has become energy. Votes: 3

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. Votes: 3

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. Votes: 3

Virtue is nothing else than right reason Votes: 3

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Votes: 3

Virtue is the health of the soul. Votes: 3

Virtue is the beauty of the soul. Votes: 3

Virtue is the first title of nobility. Votes: 3

Without Virtue there can be no liberty Votes: 3

Virtue is to herself the best reward. Votes: 3

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere. Votes: 3

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. Votes: 3

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. Votes: 3

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. Votes: 3

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity. Votes: 3

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together. Votes: 3

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. Votes: 3

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Votes: 3

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired. Votes: 3

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride. Votes: 3

Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Votes: 3

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore. Votes: 3

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. Votes: 3

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. Votes: 3

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ. Votes: 3

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause. Votes: 3

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament. Votes: 3

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. Votes: 3

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness. Votes: 3

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Votes: 3

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. Votes: 3

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance. Votes: 3

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. Votes: 3

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature. Votes: 3

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. Votes: 3

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise. Votes: 3

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors Votes: 3

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. Votes: 3

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. Votes: 3

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune. Votes: 3

Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God. Votes: 3

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Votes: 3

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him. Votes: 3

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me? Votes: 3

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. Votes: 3

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. Votes: 3

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body. Votes: 3

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. Votes: 3

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Votes: 3

Virtue is the truest liberty. Votes: 2

Virtue is its own punishment. Votes: 2

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Votes: 2

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. Votes: 2

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. Votes: 2

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. Votes: 2

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Votes: 2

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Votes: 2

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. Votes: 2

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Votes: 2

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. Votes: 2

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. Votes: 2

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Votes: 2

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Votes: 2

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Votes: 2

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. Votes: 2

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. Votes: 2

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Votes: 2

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Votes: 2

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Votes: 2

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue. Votes: 2

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig. Votes: 1

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. Votes: 1

Be mule-like stubborn about your happy Votes: 1

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence. Votes: 1

PRESCRIPTION A bitof virtuewill neverhurt you. Votes: 1

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. Votes: 1

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. Votes: 1

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice. Votes: 1

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. Votes: 1

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice. Votes: 1

Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord. Votes: 1

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis. Votes: 1

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. Votes: 1

Unimaginative thinking has never produced a genuis Votes: 1

Patience is a virtue I don't have. Votes: 1

Mistake is an event not a person. Votes: 1

Any virtue can be taken too far. Votes: 1

Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice. Votes: 1

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to. Votes: 1

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Votes: 1

To be moral, an act must be free. Votes: 1

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. Votes: 1

Hang out with successful people and you'll acquiresuccess characters Votes: 1

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. Votes: 1

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey. Votes: 1

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers. Votes: 1

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue. Votes: 1

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. Votes: 1

Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot! Votes: 1

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous. Votes: 1

A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek. Votes: 1

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. Votes: 1

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement. Votes: 1

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue. Votes: 1

Good and great are seldom in the same man. Votes: 1

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease. Votes: 1

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue. Votes: 1

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. Votes: 1

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears. Votes: 1

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God. Votes: 1

Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise. Votes: 1

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. Votes: 1

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. Votes: 1

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart. Votes: 1

Am eager to make more mistakes in order to succeed. Votes: 1

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue Votes: 1

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen. Votes: 1

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen. Votes: 1

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you. Votes: 1

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance. Votes: 1

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing. Votes: 1

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich. Votes: 1

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Votes: 1

When virtue meets smartness in a woman, you have a wife Votes: 1

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed. Votes: 1

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor. Votes: 1

Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one! Votes: 1

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher. Votes: 1

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us. Votes: 1

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. Votes: 1

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. Votes: 1

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. Votes: 1

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world. Votes: 1

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. Votes: 1

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. Votes: 1

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. Votes: 1

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice. Votes: 1

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. Votes: 1

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish. Votes: 1

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others. Votes: 1

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water. Votes: 1

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote. Votes: 1

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful. Votes: 1

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin. Votes: 1

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. Votes: 1

If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late. Votes: 1

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. Votes: 1

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single. Votes: 1

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness. Votes: 1

I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time. Votes: 1

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world. Votes: 1

You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad. Votes: 1

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Votes: 1

Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues. Votes: 1

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government Votes: 1

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. Votes: 1

Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue. Votes: 1

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. Votes: 1

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong. Votes: 1

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue. Votes: 1

Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies. Votes: 1

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom. Votes: 1

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there. Votes: 1

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned... Votes: 1

An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination. Votes: 1

Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears. Votes: 1

Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife Votes: 1

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. Votes: 1

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue. Votes: 1

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Votes: 1

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind. Votes: 1

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being. Votes: 1

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling. Votes: 1

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. Votes: 1

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. Votes: 1

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. Votes: 1

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble. Votes: 1

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 1

Your thinking depends on your perception, just asyour perception depends on the way you think. Votes: 1

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues. Votes: 1

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand. Votes: 1

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. Votes: 1

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld Votes: 1

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. Votes: 1

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others. Votes: 1

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return. Votes: 1

Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. Votes: 1

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. Votes: 1

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? Votes: 1

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer. Votes: 1

Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser Votes: 1

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results. Votes: 1

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. Votes: 1

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. Votes: 1

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. Votes: 1

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family. Votes: 1

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. Votes: 1

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice? Votes: 1

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986 Votes: 1

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. Votes: 1

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Votes: 1

You can fuck anyone but when it comes to making love your virtue will be questioned. Votes: 1

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. Votes: 1

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser. Votes: 1

A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity. Votes: 1

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. Votes: 1

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Votes: 1

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire. Votes: 1

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. Votes: 1

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. Votes: 1

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. Votes: 1

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, Votes: 1

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution. Votes: 1

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all? Votes: 1

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. Votes: 1

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up? Votes: 1

If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already. Votes: 1

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power Votes: 1

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all. Votes: 1

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death. Votes: 1

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair. Votes: 1

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. Votes: 1

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot. Votes: 1

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion. Votes: 1

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier") Votes: 1

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. Votes: 1

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition Votes: 1

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else. Votes: 1

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. Votes: 1

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size. Votes: 1

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling. Votes: 1

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. Votes: 1

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. Votes: 1

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Votes: 1

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? Votes: 1

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance. Votes: 1

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue. Votes: 1

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. Votes: 1

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better. Votes: 1

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience! Votes: 1

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct. Votes: 1

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think... Votes: 1

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue. Votes: 1

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed. Votes: 1

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? Votes: 1

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. Votes: 1

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. Votes: 1

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. Votes: 1

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] Votes: 1

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on. Votes: 1

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? Votes: 1

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust. Votes: 1

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. Votes: 1

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. Votes: 1

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. Votes: 1

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands. Votes: 1

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her. Votes: 1

Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. Votes: 1

The identity you're craving for is an illusion; your true nature has no identity, you're the universe -you contain all things! Votes: 1

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process Votes: 1

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart. Votes: 1

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. Votes: 1

Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do. Votes: 1

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids. Votes: 1

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. Votes: 1

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. Votes: 1

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. Votes: 1

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew. Votes: 1

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. Votes: 1

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style. Votes: 1

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. Votes: 1

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? Votes: 1

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. Votes: 1

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude Votes: 1

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. Votes: 1

Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind! Votes: 1

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. Votes: 1

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. Votes: 1

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. Votes: 1

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them. Votes: 1

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil. Votes: 1

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Votes: 1

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. Votes: 1

Women are gifts, open them with care, judge them with leniecy, test and weigh their depths, then accept those with true worth and value. Votes: 1

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. Votes: 1

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. Votes: 1

... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward. Votes: 1

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. Votes: 1

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven Votes: 1

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them. Votes: 1

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state Votes: 1

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. Votes: 1

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice. Votes: 1

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. Votes: 1

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected. Votes: 1

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. Votes: 1

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. Votes: 1

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring Votes: 1

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue! Votes: 1

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house. Votes: 1

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today. Votes: 1

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin. Votes: 1

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. Votes: 1

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. Votes: 1

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person. Votes: 1

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151) Votes: 1

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear. Votes: 1

Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right). Votes: 1

Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you. Votes: 1

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer. Votes: 1

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity. Votes: 1

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes. Votes: 1

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. Votes: 1

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you Votes: 1

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. Votes: 1

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough. Votes: 1

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either. Votes: 1

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Votes: 1

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue. Votes: 1

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams! Votes: 1

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else. Votes: 1

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Votes: 1

Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well,Is a clot of warmer dust,Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin Votes: 1

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. Votes: 1

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune... Votes: 1

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else. Votes: 1

As a Muslim, I believe in the concept of fate, that there are certain things out of my control. Thus, what chance do I have to stand against kismet? Votes: 1

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. Votes: 1

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. Votes: 1

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess. Votes: 1

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection. Votes: 1

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom. Votes: 1

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. Votes: 1

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death. Votes: 1

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. Votes: 1

We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm. Votes: 1

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. Votes: 1

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13) Votes: 1

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise. Votes: 1

From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate? Votes: 1

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Votes: 1

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses. Votes: 1

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues. Votes: 1

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue. Votes: 1

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it. Votes: 1

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims. Votes: 1

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. Votes: 1

For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things. Votes: 1

I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane. Votes: 1

If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit. Votes: 1

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression. Votes: 1

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds. Votes: 1

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself. Votes: 1

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. Votes: 1

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than they sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Votes: 1

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Votes: 1

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven! Votes: 1

Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn't want to go to bed when he's tired. Being resolute is standing one's ground even in the face of opposition. It's a man's virtue, not a toddler's vice. Votes: 1

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance. Votes: 1

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 3). Votes: 1

I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake. Votes: 1

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live! Votes: 1

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose. Votes: 1

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist. Votes: 1

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. Votes: 1

But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage. Votes: 1

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. Votes: 1

Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders. Votes: 1

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others Votes: 1

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. Votes: 1

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom. Votes: 1

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well Votes: 1

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice Votes: 1

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it? Votes: 1

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues. Votes: 1

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment. Votes: 1

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. Votes: 1

WoyzeckYes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder. Votes: 1

Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal? Votes: 1

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes. Votes: 1

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth Votes: 1

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. Votes: 1

Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk. Votes: 1

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death. Votes: 1

Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life! Votes: 1

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training. Votes: 1

You can seek out good fortune, authority (power), and even a righteous life-partner...and find them all. But when all of this is gone...which it will be eventually, I wish you Peace, which is only found through Christ our Lord. Votes: 1

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder. Votes: 1

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Votes: 1

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Votes: 1

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. Votes: 1

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage. Votes: 1

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone. Votes: 1

A most loving virtue of all, is that of a cheerful giver with the right attitude of LOVE! Giving is not just a random act of kindness. It is an investment in humanity. In return you become more than yourself, you transcend. Votes: 1

Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the Manifestation of War rises; If a nation is ruled through Love, War would not exist and Harmony would find its way. Votes: 1

By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other. Votes: 1

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. Votes: 1

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement. Votes: 1

The paradise in women is not the v-shape manipulation between their legs, or the two lovely bombs, set on their bosom that can blast any strong, holy spirit filled individual, but that part of her that cannot be described, yet can only be felt. Votes: 1

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately. Votes: 1

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.. Votes: 1

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly. Votes: 1

The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity. Votes: 1

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor. Votes: 1

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [...] Votes: 1

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs. Votes: 1

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights. Votes: 1

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighbours need whole parishfulsOf folk to do it on - in short,Our virtues are all social; if,Deprived of solitude, you chafe,It's clear you're not the virtuous sort. Votes: 1

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor. Votes: 1

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her. Votes: 1

But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.This I was, and envying a kettle. Votes: 1

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self. Votes: 1

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. Votes: 1

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. Votes: 1

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine} Votes: 1

Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative and the pupil's will is coerced. Instead a compelling vision of the goodness of goodness itself needs to be presented in a way that is attractive and stirs the imagination. Votes: 1

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned! Votes: 1

Tart, cathartic virtue. Votes: 0

Tenderness is a virtue. Votes: 0

Impatience is a virtue. Votes: 0

Cowardice is no virtue. Votes: 0

Silent guns have virtue. Votes: 0

Kindness is virtue itself. Votes: 0

Patience is not a virtue! Votes: 0

Reward is its own virtue. Votes: 0