Virtue Quotes - Page 45

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.