Their Virtue Quotes

31 quotes by 30 authors

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of… — Henry David Thoreau
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of… — Thomas Jefferson
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their… — Confucius
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How… — Ibn Hazm
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us… — James Madison
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and… — Lord Byron
I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place… — Xu Zhiyong
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. — Alexander Pope
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have… — Richard Branson
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and… — Jean de la Bruyere
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — Ayn Rand
What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of… — Giordano Bruno
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem… — Michel de Montaigne
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause. — James Ussher
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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