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Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Tamburlaine the Great
There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
- If there's a power above us,
- (And that there is all nature cries aloud
- Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
G.K. CHESTERTON, Heretics
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
MAE WEST, An Uncommon Scold
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, Michael Oren Fitzgerald's Christian Spirit
- Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
- Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.
Virtue is more to a man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
If you have performed an act of great and disinterested virtue, conceal it; if you publish it, you will neither be believed here, nor rewarded hereafter.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, leter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, leter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth, in the easiest manner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one will untie itself before you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, leter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
- Virtue!--to be good and just--
- Every heart, when sifted well,
- Is a clot of warmer dust,
- Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
ALFRED TENNYSON, The Vision of Sin
Virtue is admirable, but boring.
JOHN TWELVE HAWKS, The Traveler
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
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