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Virtue Quotes

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Apollonius of Tyana

Nature Learning Practice Virtue May

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg

Nothing Become Virtue Unattractive

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Humanity Born Development Virtue

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Past Virtue Call Mischief Them

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

Fall Rise Sin Virtue Some

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Men Virtue Right Conscience Left

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

William Hazlitt

Religion Crime Virtue Heroism Vice

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Measure Prosperity Virtue Difficult

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Light Mask True Sight Virtue First

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

Courage You I Can Virtue Give Make

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Society Believe Personal Virtue Task

Tenderness is a virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Virtue Tenderness

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Evil Temptation Virtue Resist Ordeal

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Reward Virtue Office Box Own Sale

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Great Seed Search Privilege Virtue

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Money Value Living Golden Virtue

Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled.

Richard III of England

God Desire Living Principal Virtue

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

Law Virtue Minority Majority Ruler

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

Technology Know Entertainment Virtue

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage Virtue Testing Point Virtues

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Tolerance Virtue More Lived Really

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

Enough Remember Important Virtue Old

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

James Q. Wilson

Long Run Virtue Interest Depends

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

E. Stanley Jones

Life Character Think Virtue Human

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