Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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.

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.

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

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.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

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

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.

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

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

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

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

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

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

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

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

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.

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

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

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

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.

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

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.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

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 why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

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

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.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.