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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.
People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.