Quotes
Quotes about Virtue
Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Virtue is a sure anchor.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
