A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
James Goldsmith
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
Roger Rosenblatt
Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
Maximilien Robespierre
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
We think there is virtue in letting customers act on a voluntary nature in terms of renewable energy. We think it makes more economic sense than a state-mandated Renewable Portfolio Standard, which could end up being more expensive for the consumer.
Daniel Bishop
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Judith Martin
An unprecedented amount of new fund money has been attracted to the LME by virtue of index buying (commodity indices) and structured products.
Robin Bhar
In several cases, it's been a witnessing tool, just by virtue of having it in common with someone and being able to talk with someone while we play.
Daniel Howell
Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.
Valerie Hudson
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
James Q. Wilson
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Cornelius Tacitus
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
A. Alvarez
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
Frank Wedekind
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
By virtue of just adding that lane all the way through the system in both directions northbound and southbound, you're going to increase the capacity.
Jacek Tyszkiewicz
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott
As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.
Valerie Solanas
What we're doing today is announcing in effect a bridging program to help families with cash assistance and services and to help people who've lost their jobs or been displaced from their homes by virtue of this tragedy.
Franklin Thomas
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
Henry Fielding
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.
Marcus Aurelius
Decadence: The Passing of Personal Virtue and Its Replacement by Political and Psychological Slogans.
London School
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My virtue is my kindness. I'm a kind person. My fault is having that become my enemy.
Takehito Koyasu
The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty.
Benjamin Rush
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudianus
Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue. The Spring Festival alms program embodies a combination of the virtue and the political ideology of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).
Lu Xiaowen
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause /it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Harold Rosenberg
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Diogenes Of Sinope
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.
William Cooper
We should all renew our faith in God because He has always been there for us at very difficult times of our nation's history. At a time like this, we should remember and practice the virtue of selflessness, love, sacrifice which the life, death and resurrection of Jesus exemplified.
Otunba Gbenga Daniel
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
RICHES, n. A gift from Heaven signifying, 'This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.' John D. Rockefeller The reward of toil and virtue. J.P. Morgan The sayings of many in the hands of one. Eugene Debs To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of va.
Ambrose Bierce
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
Barbara Ehrenreich
What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.
Gail Hamilton
These sorts of funds have set themselves up to outperform by virtue of the fact that individual picks can really make a difference.
Paul Herbert
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
Kelly Miller
PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. 'Persevere, persevere!' cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl. 'Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is -- where?' Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peac.
Ambrose Bierce
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Ashley Montague
I'm older and wiser, and while patience is still a virtue most coaches lack, it's obviously part of the equation.
Beth Burns
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Philip Massinger
Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the morals stand. But at some point in time, usually at the end of each episode, you come up with some kind of message and some kind of moralistic virtue in some kind of way.
Julian Mcmahon
Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.
Marshall Field
Innocence more often than not is a piece of good fortune rather than a virtue.
Anatole France
We're probably looking at an increase in funding from last year. I would expect this year to be larger just by virtue of our growing assets.
Stephen Howard
And it tries to strengthen procedural safeguards for the most vulnerable of children from contiguous countries, such as asylum seekers, and abused, abandoned or neglected children. That includes children who are too young to make a decision on voluntary departure, or children who are incompetent by virtue of mental retardation.
Christopher Nugent
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais
The Cuban national, by virtue of the fact that he's Cuban and eligible to adjust his status under the Cuban Adjustment Act will still be processed for removal, but he'll have the opportunity to request to stay.
Steve Mcdonald
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Frank Miller
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
Some of them actually reported the cash payments, but Eddie understood that they might not do that. Eddie also did not have his corporation deduct those payments as salaries or wages, so the corporation ended up paying more tax than it should have. It overpaid in amounts many times more than the government claimed it lost by virtue of this behavior.
Hank Asbill
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Ambrose Bierce
The Spring Festival alms program embodies a combination of the virtue and the political ideology of the ruling Communist Party of China.
Lu Xiaowen
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
William Bennett
Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
Norman Thomas
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
William Paley
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius
There is no moral virtue in being endowed with genius rather than talent: It is a gift of the gods or the luck of the genes.
Dorothy Green
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.
Barry Goldwater
Ours has much more to do with the Masonic theme. Mozart was really intrigued by the ideals of the Masons and wanting to have truth, virtue and reason be the model by which people live by.
Christine Seitz
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Laurence Hope
I think what happens in this process is there is an initial search and so much work is required to satisfy the competing constituencies that once a list is assembled, few people want to give it up. Some of the names on the list are almost venerable by virtue of age and longevity. There is a certain comfort in going with what you know, but it may not be the best.
Douglas W. Kmiec
The virtue of seeing a doctor who knows you is, if you come in and say, 'I have a headache,' he or she knows whether you always have headaches or if this is an earth-shattering event because you haven't had a headache in 40 years.
Carolyn Clancy
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
Ambrose Bierce
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
To make a virtue of necessity.
Roman Proverb
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
John Dryden
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Diogenes Of Sinope
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Walter Gilbert
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
John Jay Chapman
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott
Generosity. This community has demonstrated that virtue. Every visiting teacher that has come has made that remark. It is one of the most beautiful aspects of this community. We rely totally on donations.
Eido Frances Carney
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Edward Everett Hale
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Eugene Sue
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell
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