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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don't quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.