Virtue Quotes
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.Joseph Addison
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.Sir J. R. Seeley
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri
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
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
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
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
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.Theodore Roosevelt
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.Barbara Ehrenreich
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.Hugh Prathe
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.Juvenal
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.Samuel Butle
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
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
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
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.Benjamin Franklin
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.The Hitopadesa
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.C. C. Colton
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
