Virtue Quotations
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| Some folks wear their halos much too tight. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. | |||
| - Charles Caleb Colton | |||
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| Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. | |||
| - Denis Diderot | |||
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| Blushing is the color of virtue. | |||
| - Diogenes | |||
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| Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
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| Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. | |||
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |||
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| Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. | |||
| - Robert S. Lynd | |||
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| Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. | |||
| - Horace Mann | |||
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| Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by. | |||
| - André Maurois | |||
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| The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. | |||
| - Henry Miller | |||
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| Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. | |||
| - George Orwell | |||
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| Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
| We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| Virtue is insufficient temptation. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. | |||
| - Dame Edith Sitwell | |||
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| Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
| We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||