Quotes
Quotes about Virtue
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Patience, n.âA minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.
Bluntness is a virtue.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn; Yet juice of subtile virtue lies Within my cup of curious dyes.
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
