Quotes of Virtue - somelinesforyou

“ Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office. ”

- Mae West

“ He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ”

- Confucius

“ Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ”

- Richard Whately

“ The glue that holds all relationships together — including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ”

- Confucius

“ The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Virtue is reason which has become energy. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. ”

- Charlotte Bingham

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. ”

- Stephen Fry

“ Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. ”

- Augustine J. Duganne

“ Unto the pure all things are pure. ”

- Bible

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

- Adam Smith

“ There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. ”

- Bible

“ Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ”

- James Oliver

“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”

- George Allen

“ If there's a power above us,(And that there is all nature cries aloudThrough all her works) he must delight in virtue. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ”

- Herman Melville
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