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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.