Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman to a mans advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes its just a sign of… — Ninon De Lenclos Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
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