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In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!
Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.
Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.
What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.
The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.