Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Robert Smith Surtees

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Robert Vaughn

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Marquis de Sade

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Nagarjuna

Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.

Kural

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Luc de Clapiers

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Shinichi Suzuki

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

William Slim

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

William S. Burroughs

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Robert Herrick