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Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.
Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.