VIRTUE QUOTES IV

quotations about virtue


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Virtue and vice are the only things in this world, which, with our souls, are capable of surviving death; the former is the rational and only procuring cause of all intellectual happiness, and the latter of conscious guilt and misery; and therefore, our indispensable duty and ultimate interest is, to love, cultivate and improve the one, as the means of our greatest good, and to hate and abstain from the other, as productive of our greatest evil.

ETHAN ALLEN
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Reason: The Only Oracle of Man


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Tags: Ethan Allen


As the flower, when plucked for enjoyment, begins to wither, so does virtue practiced for reward begin to vanish.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean

Tags: Confucius


The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

AESOP

"The Thieves and the Cock", Aesop's Fables

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

JOHN MILTON

Comus

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Virtue, like beauty, is commonly only skin deep.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Virtue alone has majesty in death.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

Tags: Edward Young


It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

REBECCA WEST

The Harsh Voice

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams


Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER

Aurora

Tags: Sir William Alexander


If one doth act in friendly wise,
With no evil thought toward any single creature,
And in so doing becometh proper,
And if he have compassion in his soul
Toward all living beings--this noble one
Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


No virtuous act can be fully virtuous unless it is freely chosen by the person acting.

JAMES STONER

"The Harmony and Balance of Virtue and Liberty", Learn Liberty, April 24, 2017


Every deed of dishonor, every victim of vice, every ghastly spectacle of crime, is an eloquent testimony to the need and the worth of virtue.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


To be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. If thou hast not conquer'd thyself in that which is thy own particular weakness, thou hast no title to virtue, tho' thou art free of other men's.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers

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Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

JOHN DRYDEN

Imitation of Horace

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To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer
Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.

EDWARD YOUNG

Love of Fame: The Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires

Tags: Edward Young


There is no road or ready way to virtue.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

Tags: Sir Thomas Browne


The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Vicar of Wakefield

Tags: Oliver Goldsmith


It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine