I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. ~By Moliere ~
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ~By Thomas Day ~
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ~By Joseph Hall ~
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ~By Sydney Smith ~
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. ~By Will Durant ~
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. ~By William Shakespeare ~
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ~By Algernon Sydney ~
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ~By Charles Kingsley ~
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. ~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman. ~By Caroline A. Huling ~
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ~By Aristotle ~
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ~By Milton Friedman ~
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ~By Anatole France ~
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. ~By Gordon B. Hinckley ~
The love of economy is the root of all virtue. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ~By Harriet Martineau ~
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. ~By Jeremy Taylor ~
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ~By Sallust ~
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. ~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ~By William Hazlitt ~
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. ~By Buddha ~
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ~By Neville Marriner ~
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ~By Mark Rutherford ~
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ~By William C. Bryant ~
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex. ~By Robert Benton ~
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~By Evelyn Waugh ~
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. ~By Franz Kafka ~
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. ~By Baruch Spinoza ~
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ~By Marquis de Sade ~
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. ~By J. M. Coetzee ~
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ~By Karl Marx ~
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ~By Simone Weil ~
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ~By Frank Miller ~
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. ~By Lao Tzu ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. ~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. ~By Victor Hugo ~
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. ~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. ~By Edmund Husserl ~
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ~By Satchel Paige ~
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ~By William Blake ~
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ~By Ira Gershwin ~
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ~By Andre Breton ~
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ~By Thomas Babington ~
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ~By George Orwell ~
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. ~By John Burns ~
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ~By Casey Stengel ~
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. ~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Virtue is harmony. ~By Pythagoras ~
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ~By Simone Weil ~
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. ~By Euripides ~
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ~By William Hazlitt ~
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ~By Walter Scott ~
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list. ~By Brit Hume ~
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. ~By John Locke ~
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. ~By James Q. Wilson ~
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ~By William Shakespeare ~
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. ~By Ashley Montagu ~
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ~By Samuel Butler ~
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~By Barry Goldwater ~
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. ~By Georg Buchner ~
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ~By Thomas Gold ~
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. ~By Sargent Shriver ~
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Virtue is reason which has become energy. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right. ~By Paul Elmer More ~
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ~By Charles Dickens ~
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ~By James Goldsmith ~
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. ~By Frank Zappa ~
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ~By Joseph Story ~
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ~By J. William Fulbright ~
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