Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to… — Brooks Atkinson
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue. — Joseph Addison
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do… — William Gilmore Simms
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no… — Mahatma Gandhi
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious,… — John Ruskin
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… — Natalia Ginzburg
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. — Benjamin Franklin
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we… — W. Somerset Maugham
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences… — Honore de Balzac
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through… — Benjamin Rush
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens. — Andrew Johnson
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good… — Joseph Addison
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! — Horace
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. — Ronald Reagan
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. — John Marshall
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does… — Mother Teresa

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