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Virtue Quotes - Page 20

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

Samuel Williams
Government, Liberty, Virtue

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy, Selfishness, Virtue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.341

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Rush Limbaugh
Virtue

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Robert E. Lee
Country, Honor, Virtue

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Rebecca West
Success, Vices, Virtue

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Rewards, Virtue
Essays "Friendship" (1841)

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Plutarch
Beauty, Flower, Virtue
Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3173, Delphi Classics

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Plutarch
Reality, Vices, Virtue

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato
Evil, Virtue, Harmony

By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.

Pio of Pietrelcina
Doe, Modesty, Virtue

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Philip Sidney
Lovers, Virtue, Scorn
Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.180, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Philip James Bailey
Humility, Virtue, Lowliness
Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.93

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

Paulo Coelho
Sin, Miserable, Virtue

Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.

Paul Tillich
Virtue, Courage To Love, Greater

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Oliver Goldsmith
Speak, Virtue

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

Mason Cooley
Faults, Virtue, Tied

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Mason Cooley
Fun, Vices, Virtue

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Martin Luther
Crowns, Virtue, Obedience

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain
Eccentric, Virtue, Virtuous
A Curious Dream (1872) "Mental Photographs"

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

Margot Asquith
Needs, Virtue, Truthfulness

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Margaret of Valois
Flesh, Bones, Virtue

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Mind, Virtue
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vanity, Virtue, Fervent

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money, Wealth, Virtue

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Real, Virtue
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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