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Virtues Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I…
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and…
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
- Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you…
More Virtues Quotes
- 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
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott