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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.