Amiable Quote by Laurence Sterne

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

— Ted Malloch

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be…

— Marcel Proust

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right…

— Aristotle

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not…

— St. Jerome

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

— Allen W. Wood

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst…

— Friedrich Nietzsche