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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Quotes by William Slim

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Quotes by William Cullen Bryant

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Quotes by William Bennett

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Quotes by Will Durant

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

Quotes by Wendy Long

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Quotes by Wayne Rogers

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

Quotes by Vincent McNabb

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Quotes by Tom Hiddleston

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Quotes by Thomas Gold

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Quotes by Thomas Bulfinch

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

Quotes by Theodore Hesburgh

The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.

Quotes by Theo Paphitis

Whereas Jimmy Carter had aggressively pursued anti-merger activity - the imbecilic case against AT&T was prosecuted under President Carter - Mr. Reagan understood the virtue of allowing companies to exploit the synergies of mergers to gain efficiency and lower costs.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Quotes by Silius Italicus

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Quotes by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

Quotes by Sheri L. Dew

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Quotes by Samuel Alexander

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Quotes by Sallust

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Quotes by Saint Augustine

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

Quotes by Rudolf Hilferding

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Quotes by Robert Vaughn

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Quotes by Robert Smith Surtees

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Quotes by Robert Cecil

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Quotes by Robert Burns

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Quotes by Richard Mentor Johnson

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

My favourite virtue is not having any.

Quotes by Ram Gopal Varma

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Quotes by Quintilian

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Quotes by Quintilian

Virtue is harmony.

Quotes by Pythagoras

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Quotes by Pope Francis

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Quotes by Plautus

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Quotes by Philip Massinger

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Quotes by Philip Massinger

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Quotes by Petrarch

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Quotes by Peter Ustinov

Tenderness is a virtue.

Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Quotes by Michael Hintze

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Quotes by Mencius

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Quotes by Max Weber

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Quotes by Max Beerbohm

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Quotes by Matthew Prior

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Quotes by Matthew Prior

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Mary Shelley

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Quotes by Mark Udall

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Quotes by Margaret Deland

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

Quotes by Marc Webb

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Mae West

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Quotes by Lionel Trilling

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Quotes by Lawrence G. Lovasik

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Quotes by Krista Tippett

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Quotes by Krista Tippett

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Quotes by Krista Tippett

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Quotes by Karl Barth

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Quotes by Judith Martin

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Quotes by Jose Rizal

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Quotes by Jose Marti

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Quotes by Jonathan Mayhew

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

Quotes by Jonathan Frakes

The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.

Quotes by John Wycliffe

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Quotes by John Robert Seeley

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Quotes by John Morley

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Quotes by John Jay Chapman

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Quotes by Jessica Lange

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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