best quotations about
Virtue |
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Quotations
 | Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 10 likes |
 | It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (on British Labour politician Stafford Cripps) 7 likes |
 | Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 7 likes |
 | Happiness is based on the five senses, while virtue cannot satisfy any of them. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 6 likes |
 | Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 4 likes |
| In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 4 likes |
 | Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Measure for Measure 4 likes |
 | Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 4 likes |
 | Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 3 likes |
 | Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. — Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677, Dutch philosopher 3 likes |
 | Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, English-American writer 3 likes |
 | Wit and valour are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 3 likes |
 | “Forgive us our virtues.” That is what we should ask of our neighbors. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 3 likes |
 | Vice and virtue must look much the same to one who calls the whole world “nice”. — Martial, 43-104 AD, Roman poet of epigrams 2 likes |
| When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | You're worse than decent. You're virtuous. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 2 likes |
 | Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 2 likes |
 | No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. |
 | Everything can be learned, even virtue. |
| If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. |
| If you want to give men a virtue, first give them a passion. |
| Virtue is the health of the soul. |
 | One of the properties of virtue is that it does not excite envy. |
| Unfortunately, there are virtues that you can only exercise when you are rich. |
 | Live your life the way you want your children to live theirs. |
 | The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament. |
 | There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery. |
| From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. |
 | Vice is man’s nature: virtue is a habit –or a mask. |
| The measure of any man’s virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. |
 | Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. |
 | Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. The sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues |
 | Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous. |
 | Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance. |
 | The man who wishes to remain virtuous under all circumstances is left to perish among the multitude of those who are not virtuous. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher |
Latin Quotes
 | Fortune is the companion of virtue. Virtutis fortuna comes. — motto of the Duke of Wellington 23 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
Ancient Greek
 | The wise man would regulate his conduct as a citizen, not according to the established laws, but according to the law of virtue. Τον σοφόν ού κατά τους κειμένους νόμους πολιτεύσεσθαι, αλλά κατά τον της αρετής. — Antisthenes, 445-360 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 9 likes |
 | War is a school for virtue. Πόλεμος γαρ σχολείον αρετής εστί. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Virtue consists not in avoiding wrong-doing, but in having no want for it. Αγαθόν ού το μη αδικείν, αλλά το μηδέν θέλειν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Pleasures are mortal while the virtues are immortal. Αι μεν ηδοναί θνηταί αι δε αρεταί αθάνατοι. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 5 likes |
