Virtue Quotes

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. (Francis Bacon)
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue is harmony. View quote
Pythagoras
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. View quote
Confucius
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. View quote
Victor Hugo
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. View quote
Joseph Addison
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. View quote
Boris Pasternak
The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." View quote
Confucius
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. (Euripides)
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. View quote
Confucius
All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. View quote
Voltaire
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. View quote
Aristotle
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. View quote
Plato
Silence is the virtue of fools. View quote
Francis Bacon
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. View quote
Winston Churchill
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents... View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. (Evelyn Waugh)
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. View quote
Petrarch
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. View quote
Joseph Addison
📖 Virtue Proverbs