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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.
The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.
He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.
To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.
What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.