VIRTUE QUOTES V

quotations about virtue


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

ELIZA COOK
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Diamond Dust


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

BIBLE

Proverbs 11:4

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The happy life was related to virtue, and virtue itself was not to be seen merely as an individualistic good but something which must be seen as a social good.

HENRY KARLSON

"Virtue is Social", Patheos, April 5, 2017


We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

JOHN STEINBECK

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.

ANDRE GIDE

Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

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

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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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


However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Overt and apparent virtues, bring forth praise; but there be secret and hidden virtues, that bring forth fortune; certain deliveries of a man's self, which have no name.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Fortune", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Virtue is also power. As we faithfully live the gospel, we will have power to be virtuous in every thought, feeling and action. Our minds become more receptive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and the Light of Christ. We embody Christ not only in what we say and do, but in who we are.

ROBERT D. HALES

"Becoming a Disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ", Deseret News, April 1, 2016


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

letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785

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There is nothing we abhor so much as to have to be virtuous in private.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther and try to plant a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labour to renew; a strong soil that has produced weeds, may be made to produce wheat, with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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