Virtue Quotes - Page 50

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness."

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.