Quotes
Quotes about Virtue
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our follies that we are one.
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has severest virtue for its basis, And such a friendship ends not but with life.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining ore, and called it gold; Before whose image bow the vulgar great, The vainly rich, the miserable proud, The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, And with blind feelings reverence the power That grinds them to the dust of misery. But in the temple of their hireling hearts Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
