Quotes 21 till 40 of 109.
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Everything costs its own cost, and one of our best virtues is a just desire to pay it.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
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Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric -
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 371 -
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
October 5, 1771 -
If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930 -
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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