First Virtue Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
— Eugene Delacroix
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
— Edward Gibbon
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The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and…
— Stendhal
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,
— John Rawls
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or…
— John Rawls
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Get money first; virtue comes after.
— Horace
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Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
— Jonathan V. Last
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
— Aristotle
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
— Denis Diderot
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is…
— Cato the Elder
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
— Anatole France
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Get money first; virtue comes later.
— Horace
Who Wrote These First Virtue Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 First Virtue Quotes as follows: