Virtue Quotes

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

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Laertius Diogenes

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Seneca

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

A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams, (Diary, 1786)

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Alex Comfort

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.

Frederick Sherwood Dunn

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet - Joris

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

William Coope

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software