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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.