Virtue Quotes - page 2

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde)
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. View quote
Victor Hugo
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. View quote
Izaak Walton
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. View quote
Plutarch
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it. View quote
David Starr Jordan
Virtue can only flourish among equals. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. View quote
Thomas Paine
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. View quote
Molière
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. View quote
Laozi
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. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. View quote
José Martí
Consider your breed you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. View quote
Indira Gandhi
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. View quote
James Thurber
Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. View quote
Thomas Paine
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. View quote
William Hazlitt
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. (William Hazlitt)
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. View quote
Felix Adler
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. View quote
Georg Büchner
Virtue is reason which has become energy. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
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