virtue quotes

• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. (Ambrose Bierce) [patience/form/virtue]
• There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive. (Robert Burton) [human/delight/virtue/quality]
• Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [virtue/money/speak/experience]
• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (Henry Fielding) [teach/virtue/happiness]
• Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. (William Shakespeare) [teach/virtue]
• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. (William James) [evil/stroke/virtue]
• Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. (Joseph Addison) [knowledge/virtue]
• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. (Joseph Addison) [virtue]
• Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. (Joseph Addison) [virtue/happiness/willpower]
• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. (Joseph Addison) [virtue/truth]
• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. ( Aristotle) [virtue//wisdom]
• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ( Aristotle) [character/virtue]
• All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ( Aristotle) [virtue]
• Consistency is the foundation of virtue. (Francis Bacon) [virtue]
• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. (Francis Bacon) [wife/fortune/virtue]
• Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. (Francis Bacon) [virtue]
• Silence is the virtue of fools. (Francis Bacon) [silence/virtue]
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. (Francis Bacon) [virtue]
• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. (William Blake) [virtue/virtue/slavery/human]
• You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. (William Blake) [smile/virtue/virtue/time]
• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. (Edmund Burke) [prudence/virtue/willpower]
• There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. (Edmund Burke) [virtue]
• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. (Edmund Burke) [shame/watch/virtue/willpower]
• Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. (Edmund Burke) [discipline/virtue//form]
• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. (Edmund Burke) [health/virtue]
• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. (Richard Burton) [virtue]
• For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. (Samuel Butler) [men/pleasure/virtue/civilization & progress]
• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. (Samuel Butler) [virtue]
• 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. (Samuel Butler) [virtue/compromise]
• Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. (Samuel Butler) [animals/virtue/gold/more]
• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. (Samuel Butler) [virtue/gold/more]

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