Quotes 321 till 340 of 369.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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Virtue, if not in action, is a vice.
The Maid of Honour (1632) 1, 1 -
Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, I the soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, I is virtue's prize.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
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Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice.
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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.
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