Virtue Quotes
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
~Henry David Thoreau
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
~Aristotle
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
~Friedrich Von Schlegel
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
~John Webster
Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by.
~André Maurois
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
~François de la Rochefoucauld
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
~George Orwell
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
~Victor Hugo
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
~Samuel Butler
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~Aristotle
Too much virtue can be criminal.
~Jean Racine
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
~Friedrich Von Schlegel
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
~George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
~Francis Bacon
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
~William Shakespeare
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
~George Bernard Shaw
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
~Edmund Burke
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~William Shakespeare
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
~Plato
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
~Honore de Balzac
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.
~Lord Byron
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
~Edgar Watson Howe
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
~Barbara Amiel
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