Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Thomas Aquinas

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Michele Bachmann

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Charles II

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Charles Revson

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

James Lee Burke

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Diogenes of Sinope

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Benjamin Rush

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Jean Racine

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Juvenal

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

Edgar Ramirez