Virtue Quotes - Page 47

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

Build up virtue, and you master all.

The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.

It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new and like a puzzle to work out, by virtue of it being a foreign culture.