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What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

Leonard of Port Maurice

Catholic, Grace, Virtue

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Juvenal

Rewards, Virtue, Fame

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Julio Cortazar

Important, Literature, Virtue

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Healthy, Soul, Virtue

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Jonathan Haidt

Justice, Diversity, Virtue

Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

John Milton

Men, Virtue, Admire

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.42

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty, Virtue, Economy

John Kenneth Galbraith, J. Ron Stanfield, Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield (2004). “Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith”, p.197, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Honore de Balzac

Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity, Virtue, Company

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Virtue, Indolence

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

Flannery O'Connor

Virtue, Adaptability

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.365, Macmillan

Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.

Elaine S. Dalton

Daughter, Daughter Of God, Virtue

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Don Marquis

Men, Literature, Virtue

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

David Hume

Self, Denial, Virtue

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Dante Alighieri

Flames, Virtue, Kindles

Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth, Laziness, Virtue

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

Charles Baudelaire

Strong, Temptation, Virtue

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Virtue, Chastity

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Ben Jonson

Men, Giving, Virtue

Ben Jonson (1892). “Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter: And Some Poems”

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Art, Spirit, Virtue

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Aristotle

Soul, Virtue, Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.30

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Anton Chekhov

Mistake, Imagine, Virtue

"Ariadne". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1895.