Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.