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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.