Virtue Quotes

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

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I drink no more than a sponge.

Francois Rabelais

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius

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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Ajay Naidu

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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Bob Riley

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Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Edward Young

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Benjamin Rush

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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

William S. Burroughs

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Victor Hugo

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Plato

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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

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Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.

Peter Bergen

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I'm really tired of virtue.

P. J. O'Rourke

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

Nathan Myhrvold

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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Karl Kraus

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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Ninon de L'Enclos

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Harriet Martineau

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