Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.