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Bergen Evans

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

G. K. Chesterton

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

Fran?oise Mallet-Joris

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

Don Marquis

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Sallust

There are several other cited sources of Roosevelt using this proverb.

George Santayana

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

Ruth Fulton Benedict

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 149.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Confucius

Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.

G. K. Chesterton

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Socrates

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

Socrates

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

William Graham Sumner

Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

Don Marquis

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.

Don Marquis

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Allison Ling

Bluntness is a virtue.

David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.

Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

Silius Italicus

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Laertius Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue.

BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Self-defence is a virtue, Sole bulwark of all right.

Voltaire

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Bergen Evans

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Chinese Proverb

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.

Margot Asquith

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Sir John Vanbrugh

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Franoise Mallet-Joris

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Euripides

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Sallust

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

JOHN BROWN: _Barbarossa,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction.

D. H. Lawrence

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Lord Macaulay

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

Frederick Sherwood Dunn

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.

Steve Goodman

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

Mary Bertone

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Calumny will sear Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's.

Dante Alighieri

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Aristotle

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Cato the Elder

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Fran?oise Mallet-Joris

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

Clive Staples Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Virtue is its own punishment.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

Patience is a virtue that carries a lot of WAIT!

Modesty is a *vastly* overrated virtue...

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

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

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.