Virtue Quotes - Page 42

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

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

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.

Virtue is too often merely local.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

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

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Honor is a term much used but little understood.