Quotes
Quotes about Virtue
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri volunt.]
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]
In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
