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

SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER

Aurora

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Virtue, like beauty, is commonly only skin deep.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


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


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


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

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

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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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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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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

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There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


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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In the non-internet world where behavior is observable and people are accountable, virtue is easy to spot.

DAVE HUNTOON

"Divided", The Moderate Voice, April 23, 2017


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

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Vicar of Wakefield

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The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

AESOP

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

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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


Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death.

BIBLE

Proverbs 11:4

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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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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


Virtue makes us appear amiable to others; vice, contemptible even to ourselves.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections