Quotes with virtue

  • Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
  • 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.
  • Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
  • Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
  • Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
  • The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  • Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
  • They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
  • The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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  • Lyman Abbott A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
    Lyman Abbott
    American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. (1835 - 1922)
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  • Aristotle All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Mark Twain A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Camus Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Edwin Louis Cole Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
    Real Man (1993)
    Edwin Louis Cole
    American preacher (1922 - 2002)
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • François Fénelon Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Addison How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
    Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
    That we can die but once to serve our country!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Cato the Elder 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 Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Buddha 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
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Joseph Addison Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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