True Virtue Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
— Confucius
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
— David Hume
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
— Baruch Spinoza
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond…
— Markus Heitz
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge…
— John Milton
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,…
— Plato
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If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
— Baal Shem Tov
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not…
— Julian Baggini
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True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded…
— John Dryden
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True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage…
— Jonathan Edwards
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As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from…
— Henry Parry Liddon
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It is so much better if you can recognize what is changeable and what is not. If something has manifested in your life that you…
— Nate
Who Wrote These True Virtue Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 True Virtue Quotes as follows: