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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

Mahatma Gandhi

Class, Sin, Virtue

Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Mahatma Gandhi

Caves, Virtue, Dwellers

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Lisa Kleypas

Vanity, Wealth, Virtue

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue, Honour, Ought

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

Laozi

Taoism, Way, Virtue

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Julius Charles Hare

Christianity, Virtue, Obedience

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.13

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Josh Billings

Peace, Shadow, Virtue

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

Joseph Story

Integrity, Responsibility, Virtue

Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.272

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Joseph Joubert

Religion, Virtue

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

John Tillotson

Contentment, Virtue, Piety

John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.66

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

John Selden

Humility, Practice, Virtue

"Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden (Humility)". Book by John Selden and Richard Milward, 1689.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

John of Salisbury

Men, Virtue, Proportion

"Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 7, ch. 25, 1159.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

John Milton

Virtue, Circumstances, Prudence

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

John Dryden

Mind, Virtue, Weak

'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 3, sc. 1

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

John Adams

Life, Virtue, Frugality

Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.58, UPNE

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Virtue, Defects

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Jean Racine

Criminals, Too Much, Virtue

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Jane Porter

Virtue, Fine, Nobility

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.5

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

James Russell Lowell

Path, Virtue, Ends

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.756, Delphi Classics

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

James O'Barr

Degrees, Virtue

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Irving Babbitt

Sentimental, Ethics, Virtue

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

I. F. Stone

Credit, Virtue, Crime