Quotes 81 till 100 of 109.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780 -
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
Joseph Andrews preface -
We endeavour to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
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We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
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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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