Virtue Quotes - Page 43

I do think vulnerability is a virtue.

The highest virtue is always against the law.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

All the devils respect virtue.

I think no virtue goes with size.

The order of things consents to virtue.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.