Virtue Quotes
3568 quotes by 1599 authors
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without…
— Edmund Burke
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
— Edmund Burke
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
— Samuel Butler
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
— Samuel Butler
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
— Samuel Butler
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable…
— Samuel Butler
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're…
— A. S. Byatt
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other…
— Lord Byron
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
— Lord Byron
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
— Albert Camus
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
— Dante Alighieri
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