Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad.

Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.

Your inner light lights up your outer world.

Your inner light is your brightest light.

You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances over which he had no control. His wickedness was an irrelevant accident. In this world of sin and sorrow if virtue triumphs over vice it is not because it is virtuous, but because it has better and bigger guns; if honesty prevails over double-dealing, it is not because it is honest, but because it has a stronger army more ably led; and if good overcomes evil it is not because it is good, but because it has a well-lined purse. It is well to have right on our side, but it madness to forget that unless we have might as well it will avail us nothing. We must believe that God loves men of good will, but there is no evidence to show that He will save fools from the result of their folly.

You see, if only people didn't refuse quick and hard to think about next Monday, Virtue wouldn't have such a hard and thankless time of it.

You think I’m a cynic,” Wit said. “You think I’m going to tell you that men claim to value these ideals, but secretly prefer base talents. The ability to gather coin or to charm women. Well, I am a cynic, but in this case, I actually think those scholars were honest. Their answers speak for the souls of men. In our hearts, we want to believe in—and would choose—great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so beautiful.

You want the world to be perfect, Nedril—and that's a noble goal. But the world isn't perfect. It's people like me who give the world the chance to try another day for virtue.

You will be welcome in hell, Senora. Hell is the home of honor, duty, justice, and the rest of the seven deadly virtues. All the wickedness on earth is done in their name: where else but in hell should they have their reward? Have I not told you that the truly damned are those who are happy in hell?

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

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.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.