Quotes about virtue
virtue locals
Virtue is too often merely local. Samuel Johnson
virtue praise servant
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
virtue easy form
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
virtue innocent
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent. Ward Churchill
virtue economy devices
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. William Graham Sumner
virtue capacity humans
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. William Godwin
virtue constancy humans
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. Giuseppe Mazzini
virtue conception
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct. Herbert Spencer
virtue nobility
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. Gary Zukav
virtue whatever-happens happens
for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens... Jeremy Taylor
virtue virtuous persons
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru
virtue lost slowness
There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost Graham Greene
virtue wraps
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.] Horace
virtue arise vigorous
When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous. Friedrich Nietzsche
virtue fame
Make a virtue of necessity. Geoffrey Chaucer
virtue vicious virtuous
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
virtue stills
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue. George R. R. Martin
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. Euripides
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Francis Bacon
virtue guides
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. Frances Wright
virtue adaptability
Unadaptability is often a virtue. Flannery O'Connor
virtue fine nobility
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem Jane Porter
virtue application
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. Muriel Spark
virtue testimony clear
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. Giordano Bruno
virtue civilized civilized-society
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. J. Maarten Troost
virtue premeditation
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. Georg C. Lichtenberg
virtue hours reason
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.
virtue force misfortunes
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. Honore de Balzac
virtue fashionable
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Jose Marti
virtue conditions
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. Henry Ward Beecher
virtue sentinels conscience
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. Johann Kaspar Lavater
virtue social nonviolence
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. Mahatma Gandhi
virtue humankind amiable
Virtue is not always amiable. John Adams