Virtue Quotes

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Judith Martin

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The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Lee Hsien Loong

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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

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Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

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I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Hassan Rouhani

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I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Deborah Sampson

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Francis Bacon

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Confucius

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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

Bret Stephens

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Walter Scott

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Saint Augustine

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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Peter Ustinov

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Quentin Crisp

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

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