V Quotes
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“Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations
“Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.”
Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry
“Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.”
“Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.”
Source: No Longer Human
“Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.”
“Virtue and vice are very personal. It is a moral judgement of ourselves, of our behavior and attitude. It's so personal that we could share this only with a spiritual father and through him with God. It's a judgment that we give ourselves. It's an inner aspect, and not public. The confession of a sin is secret. Not because it's shameful (it is), but it should be secret because it concerns the deepest and innermost levels of the soul. It's a dialogue of the soul with itself, making this judgement ( or hesitation of judgement ) open to God.”
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!”
“Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.”
Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love
“Virtue and wealth sometimes go together.”
Source: Dusk
“Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.”
“Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.”
Source: Some of the
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.”
“virtue can flower only when there is freedom.”
Source: Freedom from the Known
“Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.”
“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”
“Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.”
“Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.”
“Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.”
“Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.”
“Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”
“Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.”
“Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.”
“Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
[Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]”
“Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.”
“Virtue consists in fleeing vice.”
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.”
“Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.”
“Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.”
“Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.”
“Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.”
“Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.”
“Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.”
“Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.”
“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”
“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
“Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.”
Source: Schiller's Complete Works
“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.”
“Virtue has needs of limits.”
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress
“Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.”
“Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.”
“Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.”
“Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.”
Source: Caitlin: a warring absence
“Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim