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Virtue which shuns, the day.
Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Virtue only is the true beauty.
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
Love is the queen of virtues.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
strength and honor
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.
The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and humanity are commonly neglected.
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community
six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.
Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
There is explosive power in virtue.
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.
In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
Our Virtues are wrapped inside of our limitations. It is only when we are in close proximity to others that we begin to intimately explore the boundaries of our virtues by slamming into our limitations.
Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit.
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
Virtue is not always amiable.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Virtues, of ...
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.
Virtue creates reputation, but action brings success.
Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.
Most virtue lies between two vices.
Let us then, by all means, be proud of the virtues that we have not got; but let us not be too arrogant about the virtues that we cannot help having. It
Virtue has needs of limits.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Self-respect,
the corner-stone of all virtue.
Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
Virtue holds eternity in its hands.
Virtue alone is true nobility.
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
Love is the virtue of the Heart,
Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,
Decision is the virtue of the Will,
Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
Neither by nature, therefore, nor contrary to nature are the virtues present; they are instead present in us who are of such a nature as to receive them, and who are completed1 through habit.
Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues.
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.
Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path.
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
Virtue has need of limits.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
Virtue is not hereditary.
Virtue consisteth of three parts,
temperance, fortitude, and justice.
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Virtue was its own reward.
The word "virtue" was once found in so many ancient quotes, yet now seems lost in our modern lives.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does ...
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
Virtue is no empty echo.
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled ...
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.