Virtue Quotes · Page 73

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do

— Mak_786

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

— Vernon Howard

Some situations may push you to become desperate but don't forget the virtue of patience. Keep practicing it.

— Terry Mark

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

— Voltaire

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women…

— Anonymous

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely…

— John Stuart Mill

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in…

— Randy Cohen

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God,…

— Archibald Alexander

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to…

— Karl Marx

Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot - he's the president of the United States. By virtue of…

— George T. Conway III

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a…

— Sheila Heti

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only…

— John Tillotson

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty…

— Frank Herbert

White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of…

— Honore de Balzac

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us…

— Anton Chekhov

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…

— David Hume

Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving…

— Johannes Kepler

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;…

— Aristotle

“You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances…

— W. Somerset Maugham

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

— Aristotle

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

— Daniel Gilbert

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

— Simone Weil

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

— Aristotle

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

— Socrates

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to…

— Chelsea Handler

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

— Confucius