Virtue Quotes - Page 34

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Is virtue something that can be taught?

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

Integrity is praised, and starves.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially destructive in ways that many other virtues are not likely to be when they are corrupted. Nationalism and patriotism are especially prone to misguided excess.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.