Virtue Quotes

• "Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
  By: Alighieri Dante
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• "Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
  By: Dante Italian philosopher and poet (1265-1321)
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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."
  By: Quentin Crisp
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• "To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."
  By: Confucius Chinese philosopher (551 BC - 479 BC)
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• "I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women."
  By: Confucius Chinese philosopher (551 BC - 479 BC)
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• "All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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• "Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "Virtue is its own reward."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "Honor is the reward of virtue."
  By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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• "The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."
  By: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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• "Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
  By: Lord Chesterfield
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• "Good government is the outcome of private virtue."
  By: John Jay Chapman
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• "A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful."
  By: John Jay Chapman
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• "Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists."
  By: Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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• "Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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