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Virtue Quotes

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

– Leonardo da Vinci

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

– Marilyn Monroe

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

– Maximilien Robespierre

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

– Mencius

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

– Miguel de Cervantes

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

– Jane Porter

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

– John Robert Seeley

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

– Jonathan Miller

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

– Lyman Abbott

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

– Kingsley Amis

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

– Max Weber

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

– Marcus Aurelius

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

– Moliere

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

– Michel de Montaigne

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

– Johann Kaspar Lavater

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

– Quintilian

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

– Robert Herrick

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

– Oliver Goldsmith

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

– Samuel Butler

What I’ve learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I’ve realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you’re not careful.

– Ronnie Dunn

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

– Philip Massinger

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

– Samuel Butler

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

– Richard Rohr

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

– Robert Smith Surtees

Virtue is harmony.

– Pythagoras

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

– Samuel Butler

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

– Robert Green Ingersoll

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