Quotes about Virtue, page 3

But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about virtue

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about virtue

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Quote by Juvenal about virtue

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about virtue

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Quote by Satchel Paige about virtue

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.

Quote by Thomas Paine about virtue

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quote by Thomas Paine about virtue

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Quote by Thomas Paine about virtue

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Quote by Thomas Paine about virtue

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Quote by Paracelsus about virtue

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Quote by Gilbert Parker about virtue

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about virtue

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about virtue

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Quote by Ron Paul about virtue

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Quote by William Penn about virtue

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Quote by William Penn about virtue

Fidelity a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about virtue

A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about virtue

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Quote by Adam Smith about virtue

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Quote by Adam Smith about virtue