Virtue Quotes

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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all… — Richard M. Weaver
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. — Simone Weil
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;… — John Vianney
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. — Elon Musk
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives… — Gaston Bachelard
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is… — Jean de la Bruyere
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know… — Charles Simmons
Get money first; virtue comes after. — Horace
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue. — Quintilian
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say. — William James
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous. — Aristotle
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint. — Henry Ward Beecher
Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue. — Ben Jonson
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy. — William Graham Sumner
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. — Joseph Joubert
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. — Albert Camus
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart. — Fritz Kreisler

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