Associates Quote by Pope Agapetus I

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous…

— Charles Caleb Colton

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

— Mason Cooley

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies…

— Jerome K. Jerome

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

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

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau