Quotes 141 till 160 of 369.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
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