All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David Thoreau
We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn't get in our way.
Sacha Guitry
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Each must in virtue strive for to excel ; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
Douglas Jerrold
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam M. Smith
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
St. Francis De Sales
A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue.
John Randolph
If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell.
Siddha Nagarjuna
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
Charles Ii
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Gordon B. Hinckley
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
Robert G. Menzies
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
Dr. Linus Pauling
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster
Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
Marguerite Gardiner
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.
George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde
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.
George Washington
Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
Rita Mae Brown
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Sagan
In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
Carl Sagan
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude thr.
William Shakespeare
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace Mann
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Sir George Savile
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
Theodore Roosevelt
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin Franklin
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Edmund Burke
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead
All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue . . . let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
William Wilberforce
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
John Adams
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Ayn Rand
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
C. S. Lewis
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
Another virtue of my experiments is that I use the same long single strand over and over again (the natural virus sequence) and I just change the ∼200 short staple strands. This means I don't have to do a custom long synthesis every time I want to make a new structure.
Paul Rothemund
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
Alfred Jarry
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
There was a little bit of panic selling when trading started. A lot of traders are identifying bargains. But money flows are still negative by virtue of a lot of selling.
James Niosi
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
Jane Austen
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
Jane Austen
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy Nevill
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold Toynbee
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.
Virgil Thomson
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some.
Wendy Kaminer
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
David Mallet
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Edward Young
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de Lenclos
It is likely that the dust from our event, by virtue of its size, had a residence time in the stratosphere of a few weeks. After that the particles would have drifted down to the troposphere and may have been 'washed out' by rain.
Andrew Klekociuk
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Charles Revson
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn be.
Ambrose Bierce
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Joseph Addison
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke
Some traits are so advantageous under so many circumstances, or arise so relatively easily by virtue of self-organization, that you're likely to see the same things again and again.
Geerat Vermeij
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato the Elder
We look forward to the Ormsby House joining the market. Just by the virtue of their footprint there, they'll be compelled to market outside Carson City and bring more visitors.
Steve Bilyeu
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.
Venezuelan Proverb
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
There is no virtue now in blind reliance / On place or person or the forms of love. / The storm bears down the pivotal tree, the cloud / Turns to the net of an inhuman fowler / And drags us from the air.
Sidney Keyes
It was such a great time for music. Being in college radio in the '80s, R.E.M. just happened, Elvis Costello was going strong. The biggest, most famous Seattle band was the Young Fresh Fellows. Our town was halfway between Seattle and Minneapolis on I-90, and so we got tons of shows just by virtue of being the gas-money stop on I-90.
Sarah Vowell
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue.
Philip Pullman
This rush to push through legislation of dubious virtue without any significant review is both unnecessary and unwise.
John Dingell
Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always.
Omar Sharif
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
Kurt Vonnegut
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes Laertius
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Joseph Addison
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
We've always felt that when you change coaches, you become like an expansion team, because you're starting over, in a sense. Football is our family business, and we tend to believe that you're better served [with stability]. We kind of think that patience isn't such a bad virtue to have.
Dan Rooney
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 performed from that motive.
Bernard Mandeville
As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
W. Somerset Maugham
Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
William Graham Sumner
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Jane Porter
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Diogenes Laertius
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Stephen Vizinczey
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!
Joseph Addison
Ours is the most time-pressed generation in history by virtue of the number of things competing for our attention.
Jeff Davidson
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word... Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
John Steinbeck
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.
Maximilien Robespierre
PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong
Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies. And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law.
Howard Gordon
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life . . .
Charles Krauthammer
The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations, ... It's wrong to sever the link between civic names and civic virtue.
Gary Ruskin
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
David Mallet
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
The other airlines by virtue of the bankruptcy court have reduced their labor costs below where ours is today. That represents a competitive problem.
Thomas Horton
You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
Protagoras
The long-term virtue of this idea, what you'll begin to create, is a terrific lifetime habit that will give a person a great deal of lasting benefit. That weighs a lot more than the short-term thrill of tearing off the wrapping paper.
Don Cassidy
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Marcel Achard
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Marquis De Sade
Virtue is its own punishment.
Aneurin Bevan
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
Vanna Bonta
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin Rush
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Pietro Metastasio
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Cornelius Tacitus
By virtue of the fact that we're continuing to meet with them and talk with them is one indicator ... that there are some things that are looking attractive to us as opportunities.
Linda Ulrey
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
Margaret Deland
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Mark Rutherford
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry
We haven't been taught to guard positive energy, to see slowing down as a virtue.
Judith Orloff
We're in a better position to prevent an attack by terrorists on an airplane, that's for sure, ... But then again, we were in a better position after 50 minutes (on Sept. 11, 2001) to defend it, just by virtue of people in the plane ? the last plane ? knowing what was happening and taking the plane down rather than allowing the terrorists to fly the plane into the Capitol.
Martin Meehan
When you run for SORF, you have to pledge that you won't judge a club's virtue based on their application. Our guidelines are all about being objective.
Chris Foster
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Virtue isn't 'better' than vice. It's just different.
Bill Watterson
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Tom Robbins
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Mark Twain
If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.
James Dee Richardson
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. Celebrations of Life, 1981.
Rene Dubos
What this show ends up being is the beneficiary of all the work that I've done in the previous incarnations of it. Every one of those shows was responsible for making something new happen, either by virtue of what an actor does by bringing something to it, or a piece blocking or a musical interpretation. I've put all of it together.
Martin Charnin
Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue.
Titus Livy
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
By virtue of its geographical location, The Bahamas is an unwitting transit point for illegal drugs from producing countries to the south of our borders, to consumer nations to the north of our borders.
Fred Mitchell
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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