V Quotes
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“Virtue is too often merely local.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.”
Source: The Will to Power
“Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.”
Source: Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.”
“Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.”
Source: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.”
Source: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
“Virtue isn’t demanding more of others; it’s expecting more of yourself.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.”
“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”
Source: Hamlet
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.”
“Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
[Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
Nec sumit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis aurae.]”
“Virtue knows no color line.”
Source: The Red Record: Top Crime Collections
“Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition
“Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.”
“Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.”
“Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”
“Virtue lives when Beauty dies.”
“Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.”
Source: Wedekind Plays: 1: Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy, Lulu: A Monster Tragedy
“Virtue makes one a good leader, wisdom makes one an extraordinary leader, and together they make one an enlightened leader.”
“Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.”
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled;
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”
Source: Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c
“Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.”
“Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.”
“Virtue may choose the high or low degree,
'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me;
Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.”
“Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.”
“Virtue must shape itself in deed.”
Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.”
“Virtue No Ism (The Sonnet)
What is this obsession with ism before human!
Why are we still catering to ancestral stupidity!
Are we really gonna let their shortsightedness,
To define our capacity, character and destiny!
Some of them might have had the vision of unity,
Hence they spoke of peace and neighborly love.
But most lacked the sight to live beyond ism,
And we continue to prioritize ism over love.
No ideology has a monopoly over virtue,
Virtues are born of mind, not ideology.
Yet all ideologies try to codify virtue,
By doing so they only vilify all virtuosity.
All virtues are but the descendants of love.
To codify virtue is to ruin the universality of love.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.”
“Virtue only is the true beauty.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Virtue only needs to be worshipped; it follows the path to happiness...it must be so, a thousand arms open to receive its devotees, if they are pursued by adversity. But everybody deserts the guilty man...one blushes at one's attachment to him or at the tears one sheds for him, there is a fear of contagion, he is banished from everybody's hearts, and one condemns out of pride the man one ought to help out of humanity.”
Source: Virtue
“Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.”
“Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Virtue proceeds through effort.”
“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
“Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.”
“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...”
Source: Blindness
“Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.”
Source: Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.”
“Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.”
“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?”
“Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.”
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton