Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
Giraldus Cambrensis

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.
Satchel Paige

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

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Francoise Sagan

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Neville Marriner

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson

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

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
Jean Genet

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson