Quotes with virtues

  • Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
  • While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  • It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
  • When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
  • Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
  • An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
  • Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
  • Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
  • Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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  • John Locke Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joseph Addison Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aristotle The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Mario Puzo A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
    De Peetvader p. 391
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Achille Poincelot A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Marquis de Sade Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Walter Bagehot An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ida R. Wylie Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
    Ida R. Wylie
     
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  • Walter Bagehot Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Clive Staples Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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  • Winston Churchill Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • George Farquhar Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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