Their Virtues Quotes

33 quotes by 27 authors

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their… — Edmund Burke
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. — Emile M. Cioran
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to… — Olympe de Gouges
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid… — Learned Hand
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who… — Erma Bombeck
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance,… — Orville Dewey
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;… — John Vianney
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions… — Samuel Johnson
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in… — Benjamin Franklin
God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth… — John of Kronstadt
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins. — J C Ryle
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their… — Charles Caleb Colton
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. — Edward Gibbon

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