Virtue Quotes

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Chastity - you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
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
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. — William Shakespeare
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. — William Hazlitt
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue… — Benjamin Rush
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue. — Charles Dudley Warner
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. — Michel de Montaigne
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. — Thomas Browne
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none. — Seneca the Younger
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. — Confucius
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. — Pindar
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three… — Charles Caleb Colton
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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