Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.

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

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

The Gods rank work above virtues.

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.