Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?

When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.