Virtue Quotes

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Cornelius Tacitus
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.
Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Clive Staples Lewis
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William butler yeats - happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this...
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Quintilian - though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often...
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
The hitopadesa - let this be an example for the acquisition of all...
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prio
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
Franoise Mallet - Joris
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
William Paley
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Laertius Diogenes
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...
Marquis de Sade, Justine
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Sagan
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Cicero