Virtue Quotes - Page 32

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.