VIRTUE QUOTES V

quotations about virtue


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

NORMAN MACDONALD
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Maxims and Moral Reflections


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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


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


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

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

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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There is no road or ready way to virtue.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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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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When we let our virtue shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

JOE EVERETT

"Creating men of virtue", The Observer, April 20, 2017


Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


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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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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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


They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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