Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and… — Stendhal
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… — Thomas Carlyle
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. — Benjamin Franklin
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue,… — Thomas a Kempis
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but… — Thomas Hobbes
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My good intentions are completely lethal. — Margaret Atwood
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told. — Margot Asquith
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he… — Jean de la Bruyere
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in… — Horace Bushnell
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. — Unknown Author
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel de Montaigne
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the… — John Steinbeck
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius
Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion,… — Laozi
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can… — John of Salisbury
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present… — Lionel Trilling
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet

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