Virtue Quotes

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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is… — Baron de Montesquieu
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it. — David Starr Jordan
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to… — Benjamin Franklin
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue. — Juvenal
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what… — Willie Brown
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without… — Samuel Johnson
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal… — David Truman
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. — Guillaume Apollinaire
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant. — Laozi
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every… — Peter Damian
So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time — William Shakespeare
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship. — Alexander Pope
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems,… — Aristotle
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding… — Aristotle
. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand… — Aristotle
The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has… — Plato
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises… — Plato
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and… — Plato

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