Virtue Quotes

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.

Marquis de Lafayette

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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

Adam Dell

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Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

Kirk Douglas

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

Jane Porter

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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Baruch Spinoza

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jessica Lange

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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry IV of England

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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France

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Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Geraldo Rivera

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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Max Weber

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Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Ernestine Rose

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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Max Beerbohm

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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Elizabeth I

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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean de La Fontaine

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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Charles II

VirtueNeverAlwaysImitateCould

A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.

John Tyler

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal

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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Alphonse Karr

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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Robert Burns

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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

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Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Rush Limbaugh

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