Virtue Quotes
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.La Bruyere
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.John Locke
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
The home is the chief school of human virtues.William Ellery Channing
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.Socrates
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
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.Greek Prove
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.Tom Robbins
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.Cato the Elde
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.William Shakespeare
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.Voltaire
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
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 von Goethe
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.Socrates
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.Ursula Le Guin
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.Horace, Epistles
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri Frdric Amiel
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.Ayn Rand
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.Eugene Edwards
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.Matthew Prio
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.Jean Baptiste Montegut
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.Sir J. R. Seeley
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero
