Virtue Quotes - Page 44

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

I'm really tired of virtue.

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it is simply in virtue of my brain's higher capacity and complexity. A large difference - my cerebral equipment allows me to have such diverse concepts as "hope", "funky", "England", "multiplication", "three strikes" and "the categorical imperative" - but a difference in degree. Wolves, of course, are superior to me with regards to smelling, hearing, and running, and are generally superior to humans in that they don't kill each other.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.