Virtue Quotes · Page 121

“Surely I've explained to you before how much I enjoy watching the battle between love and virtue.”

— Vicomte de Valmont

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

— George Washington

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

— Edward Young

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...

— Emilie du Chatelet

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his…

— Josh Billings

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it…

— Aristotle

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of…

— William Shakespeare

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became…

— Stephen Ambrose

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when…

— Catherine Weaver

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that…

— I. F. Stone

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and…

— Patrick Henry

I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to…

— James Monroe

Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person…

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its…

— Jacques Ellul

“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great…

— Plato

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…

— Marquis de Sade

It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not…

— Benjamin Franklin

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no…

— Ayn Rand

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a…

— Samuel Johnson

“When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.”

— N.T. Wright

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

— Samuel Johnson

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

— Allen W. Wood

While the trials extend and the pain increases, patience becomes your virtue.

— Andrew Cervantes

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

— Marquis de Sade

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

— Myrtle Reed

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

— St. Catherine of Siena

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

— Luc de Clapiers

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

— Pope Gregory I

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel