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Tag Name "Virtue" (2939)

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
Plato
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Virtue which shuns, the day.
Joseph Addison
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Lord Chesterfield
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Quintilian
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Alexander Pope
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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Albert Pike
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
Michel de Montaigne
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
Owen Feltham
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
Democritus
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Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
Michel de Montaigne
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Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.
David Hume
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Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
Henry Wotton
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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.
William Hazlitt
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
Joseph Butler
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