Virtue Quotes - page 3

If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security. (Samuel Adams)
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. View quote
George Washington
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. View quote
Edith Wharton
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. View quote
Imre Lakatos
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. View quote
George Orwell
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. (Jonathan Swift)
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. View quote
William Blake
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. View quote
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. View quote
Anatole France
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. View quote
Denis Diderot
Virtue alone has majesty in death. View quote
Edward Young
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. View quote
Karl Marx
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. View quote
Voltaire
All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. View quote
Voltaire