Virtue Quotes · Page 61

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

— Laozi

“Evil never sleeps, and Virtue is ever-vigilant.”

— Terry Pratchett

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

— Anonymous

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

— Jeremy Taylor

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

— Paul Bourget

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

— Krista Tippett

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

— William Shakespeare

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

— Aristotle

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is…

— Roger L'Estrange

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy…

— Anonymous

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

— Confucius

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents…

— Charles Churchill

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the…

— Joseph Story

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.…

— Richard Dawkins

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of…

— John Patrick Shanley

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of…

— Pope Francis

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be…

— Laurence Sterne

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular…

— Alexander Hamilton

You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest…

— William Shakespeare

Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of…

— Owen Feltham

Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more…

— Sidney Hook

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life,…

— Tom Hiddleston

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and…

— William C. Bryant

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

— Anthony Provenzano

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

— Anonymous

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

— John Vanbrugh

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

— Madeleine L'Engle

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

— William Cowper

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

— Aristotle