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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His people.
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.