Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
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“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
Source: The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations
Source: James Madison's
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I
“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
“We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
Source: On Education
“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
Source: The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools
“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays
Source: Burke, Select Works
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
Source: A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics
“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.”
Source: Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: The Churchill Wit
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Source: The Analects
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.”
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.”