V Quotes
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“Virtue is not hereditary.”
Source: COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
“Virtue is not just standing tall in a storm, it's dancing gracefully in the rain.”
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Source: The Analects
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.”
“Virtue is not photogenic.”
Source: Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning
“Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.”
“Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors”
Source: The Analects
“Virtue is not the ability to tell right from wrong, virtue is the capacity to pursue the inconvenient right defying the comfort of the convenient wrong.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“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.”
“Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.”
“Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Virtue is nothing else than right reason”
“Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.”
“Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.”
“Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Virtue is presupposed in friendship.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Virtue is reason which has become energy.”
“Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.”
“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates
“Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.”
“Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.”
“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
“Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.”
“Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.”
“Virtue is the beauty of the soul.”
“Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!”
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”
“Virtue is the first title of nobility.”
“Virtue is the foundation of character. You can build your life on the foundation of virtues such as patience, kindness, humility, gentleness, forgiveness, and love. Or you can build your life on the foundation of whims, cravings, fancies, illegitimate wants, and selfish desires. The former will create a life of passion and purpose, while the later will create an irritable, restless, and discontented life.”
Source: The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
“Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.”
“Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.”
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.”
Source: Leibniz: Political Writings
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.”
“Virtue is the health of the soul.”
Source: Some of the
“Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.”
“Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter
“Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him.
[Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum.
Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes,
Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]”
“Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?”
“Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.”
Source: Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters from a Young Lady in the Country, to Her Friend in Town
“Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness.”
“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.”
“Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]”
“Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.”
“Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We are daughters of our Heavenly Father,’ how would women be regarded and treated?”
“Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.”
“Virtue is the truest liberty.”
Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political
“Virtue is the truest nobility.”
Source: THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.
“Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.”