Virtue Quotes - Page 8

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

All great virtues become great men.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Virtue is its own punishment.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.