V Quotes
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“Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.”
“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias
“Virtue is a kinder slave master than vice.”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
“Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.”
“Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.”
“Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.”
Source: A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary
“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.”
“Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.”
“Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
“Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.”
“Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Virtue is health, vice is sickness.”
“Virtue is her own reward.”
“Virtue is honorably rewarded, and the wrongdoers are suitably punished. We tend to strive for the improvement of our nature, with what you call the moral lessons that are woven into our hearts. If that were true, would there be any wrongdoers, such as myself? Would you say that perhaps I am an exception to your virtuous belief in man, only that I have scathed myself amidst the growth of those morals?” (Joseph Vladamir)
“Fancy language aside, in my eyes, you are nothing but an utter psychopath.” (Darwin)
“I am only pointing out the special treatment I am receiving for being a prisoner. All of this security, just for me! My previous guards would slumber with their handguns resting on their cigar-burned desks. Such fools trusting me enough to dream under my eye, you are a much smarter fool.”
{The Latent Identities Of Darwin}”
“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”
Source: Odd Apocalypse
“Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.”
“Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.”
“Virtue is indeed its own reward.”
“Virtue is insufficient temptation.”
“Virtue is its own punishment—“nice girls” lose—and one of the surest signs of potential proficiency in witchcraft is an inability to get along with other women.”
Source: The Satanic Witch
“Virtue is its own punishment.”
“Virtue is its own revenge.”
“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.”
“Virtue is its own reward.”
Source: Cicero's five books De finibus: or, Concerning the last object of desire and aversion
“Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
“Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.”
“Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
“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.”
Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
“Virtue is necessary to a republic.”
“Virtue is never popular, yet virtue is the answer.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Virtue is no empty echo.”
“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.”
“Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.”
Source: The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow
“Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.”
“Virtue is not always amiable.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of
“Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.”
“Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.”
Source: Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.