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Quotes and Sayings About virtue
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
Compared
Exercises
Virtue
Government
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Always
Moderation
Principle
Temper
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
Cardial
Force
Fraud
Two
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Diogenes
Blushing
Color
Virtue
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes
Neglect
Pleasing
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Sound
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
Bounds
Function
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
St. Jerome
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Elon Musk
Learning
Lesson
Patience
Tough
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Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.
Chris Gardner
Another
As Far As
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
Beats
Conquest
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot
Element
Soft
Great
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
Any
Because
Courage
Greatest
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
Annoying
Generally
Going
People
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus
Always
Anything
Approach
Brings
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Vernon Howard
According
Call
Conscience
Imaginary
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
Heavenly
Humility
Low
Root
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke
Fortitude
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Other
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
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Consumer
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
Despise
Enough
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus
Aim
Alchemy
Consider
Gold
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Adam Smith
Generosity
Humanity
Man
Virtue
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Call
Experience
Fruit
Great
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Abigail Adams
Call
Great
Necessities
Out
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw
Abide
Achieved
Beauty
Glory
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
Virtue
Has
It's
Own
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
Destroy
Does
Exists
Felt
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History
Philosophy
Skepticism
Virtue
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Easily
Governed
Men
More
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage
Endurance
Fatigue
First
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William Butler Yeats
Happiness
Virtue
Pleasure
Growth
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nikola-tesla-quotes
Nikola Tesla
Virtue
Failings
Inseparables
Force
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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Virgil
Virtue
Fairer
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
Ambition
Been
Console
Fortune
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Beginning
Cultivating
Men
Men And Women
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Voltaire
Person
Virtue
Age
Loss
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Superstition
Human
Imagine
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Plutarch
Few
Many
Sufficient
Vices
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
Education
Good
Good Education
Honesty
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Benito Mussolini
Citizens
Civic
Consciousness
Educates
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I of England
Natural
Virtue
Sex
Pitiful
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Absence
Benevolence
Confidence
Disposition
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
Basis
Endeavor
First
Only
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
Direction
Life
Reason
True
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
Happiness
Reward
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
Itself
Reward
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
Absence
Based
Character
Peace
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
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Disposition
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Where there is modesty, there is virtue.
Swedish Proverb
Virtue
Modesty
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