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Virtue Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- 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…
- No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost…
- Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
- Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
- Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
- The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
- Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
- As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real…
- 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…
- The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
- Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
- Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the…
- Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either…
- Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from…
- To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness…
- The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
- That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the…
- There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject…
- Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
- There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
- No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than…
- He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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