Virtue Quotes - Page 27

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.