Virtue Quotes

• "Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. I, 2)
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• "There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor."
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
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• "Virtue, the greatest of all monarchies."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Ode--To the Hon. Sir William Temple
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• "Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."
  By: Eugene Sue (Marie Joseph Eugene Sue)
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• "The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life."
  By: Laurence Sterne
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• "It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct."
  By: Herbert Spencer
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• "Virtue is that which must tip the preacher's tongue and the ruler's sceptre with authority."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude."
  By: Socrates
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• "Virtue is the beauty of the soul."
  By: Socrates
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• "The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, or undermine and destroy."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• "Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches."
  By: William Shenstone
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• "Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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