Virtue Quotes

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?