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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.
Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.