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Virtue Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support…
- Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.
- Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
- Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
- Laws without morals are in vain.
- Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness…
- The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
- Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
- God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
- I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.…
- I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall…
- Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to…
- "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.…
- I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
- Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
- That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer,…
- I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons;…
- 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…
- I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created;…
- Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two…
- If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
- Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
- I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether…
- Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily…
- Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
More Virtue Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine