Virtue Quotes

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

Bret Stephens

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Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Edwin Louis Cole

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Aristotle

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Walter Gilbert

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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

William Law

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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butler

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Plautus

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Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Saint Basil

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Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Pope Francis

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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Quintilian

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The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Tiger Woods

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

J. Paul Getty

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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

Richard Rohr

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Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Karen Armstrong

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Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.

Mother Angelica

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Leo Tolstoy

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Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

Edmund Husserl

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