Virtue Quotes

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

Hate, Human, Liberty

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Sunshine, Kindness, Grows

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep, Far, Company

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman

Political, American, Choose

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Honor, Reaps, Sows

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education, Natural, Ability

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

Justice, Liberty, Moderation

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

Health, Happy, May

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope

Nice, Difference, Begins

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus

Peace, Happiness, Whatever

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep, Often, While

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke

Heart, Minds, Nor

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education, Often, Natural

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler

Headache, Alcoholism, Precede

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Truth, True

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster

Love, Bad, Boring

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Mind, Reason

Honor is the reward of virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Shadow, Glory, Follows

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger

Thought, Moderation

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

Fact, Support, Everybody

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian Eno

Great, Yourself, Self

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Word, Useful, Vices

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women, Nothing, Reputation

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Real, Name, Vices

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac

Nothing, Soul, Perhaps

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx

Money, Living, Value

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

Time, Poetry, Drunk

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, God, Person

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