Virtue Quotes - Page 35

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen...

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.