Quotes about virtue

"Great necessities call out great virtues."

Adams, Abigail on virtue
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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."

Addison, Joseph on virtue   

"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."

Antrim, Minna on virtue   

"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."

Aristotle on virtue   

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."

Aristotle on virtue   

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Bacon, Francis on virtue   

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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on virtue   

"There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent."

Baudelaire, Charles on virtue   

"But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]"

Bible on virtue   

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]"

Bible on virtue   

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."

Blackwell, Elizabeth on virtue   

"The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on virtue   

"If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on virtue   

"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."

Bradley, Francis H. on virtue   

"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."

Burke, Edmund on virtue   

"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

Burroughs, William S. on virtue
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"If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue."

Bush, George on virtue   

"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."

Butler, Samuel on virtue   

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"Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal."

Butler, Samuel on virtue   

"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."

Butler, Samuel on virtue   

"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."

Camus, Albert on virtue   

"Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man."

Carlyle, Thomas on virtue   

"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on virtue   

"The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on virtue   

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Churchill, Winston on virtue
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"Virtue is its own reward."

Cicero, Marcus T. on virtue   

"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."

Comfort, Alexander on virtue   

"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."

Confucius on virtue
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius on virtue
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"I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."

Confucius on virtue
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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."

Dahlberg, Edward on virtue   

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

Diderot, Denis on virtue   

"Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave."

Duganne, Augustine J. on virtue   

"Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them."

Duncan, Isadora on virtue   

"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"The virtue in most request is conformity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"The only reward of virtue is virtue."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue