A homely face and no figure have
aided many women heavenward.
?Minna Antrim
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
?George Bernard Shaw
The greatest virtues are those
which are most useful to other persons.
?Aristotle
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Galatians 5:23, 2
?Bible
Be good and you will be lonesome.
?Mark Twain
For what is done or learned by
one class of women becomes,
by virtue of their common womanhood,
the property of all women.
?Elizabeth Blackwell
Virtue is more to be feared than vice,
because its excesses are not subject
to the restraints of conscience.
?Albert J. Nock
The highest virtue found in the tropics is
chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
?Christian Nevell Bovee
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality
without becoming a principle of evil.
?Albert Camus
Man seems to be capable of great
virtues but not of small virtues;
capable of defying his torturer
but not of keeping his temper.
?Gilbert K. Chesterton
We may eventually come to realize
that chastity is no more
a virtue than malnutrition.
?Alexander Comfort
Virtuous people are simply those
who have not been tempted sufficiently,
because they live in a vegetative state,
or because their purposes are so concentrated
in one direction that they have not had
the leisure to glance around them.
?Isadora Duncan
The virtue in most request is conformity.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtues of society are vices of
the saint. The terror of reform is
the discovery that we must cast
away our virtues, or what we have always
esteemed such, into the same pit that
has consumed our grosser vices.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue is the only true nobility.
?Thomas Fuller
Wickedness is always easier than virtue,
for it takes a short cut to everything.
?Samuel Johnson
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
?Georg C. Lichtenberg
The first time you see Winston Churchill
you see all his faults and the rest of
your life you spend discovering his virtues.
?Lady Constance Lytton
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us,
the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
?Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
There is no man so good, who,
were he to submit all his thoughts
and actions to the laws, would not deserve
hanging ten times in his life.
?Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Virtue is a sure anchor.
?Motto
Often devotion to virtue
arises from sated desire.
?Laurence Hope Nicolson
If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves,
that would assuredly be difficult; but as it
is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and
to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.
?Philokalia
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
?English Proverb
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it
we have always to combat with ourselves.
?Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues!
Among the sacrifices that can be made
to those counterfeit divinities,
is there one worth an instant of the
pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
?Marquis De Sade
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
?William Shakespeare
Better keep yourself clean and bright.
You are the window through
which you must see the world.
?George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is more to be feared than vice,
because its excesses are not
subject to the regulation of conscience.
?Adam Smith
Virtue is its own reward.
There's a pleasure in doing good
which sufficiently pays itself.
?Sir John Vanbrugh
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
?John Kenneth Galbraith
Virtue is not the absense of vices
or the avoidance of moral dangers;
virtue is a vivid and separate thing,
like pain or a particular smell.
?G. K. Chesterton
It is a revenge the devil sometimes
takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps
them by the force of the very
passion they have suppressed and
think themselves superior to.
?George Santayana
Nature does not loathe virtue:
it is unaware of its existence.
?Françoise Mallet-Joris
Man cannot be uplifted;
he must be seduced into virtue.
?Don Marquis
And be on they guard against
the good and the just!
They would fain curcify those
who devise their own virtue --
they hate the lonesome ones.
?Fredrich Nietzsche
To practice five things under all
circumstances constitutes perfect virtue;
these five are gravity, generosity of soul,
sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
?Confucius
The superior man thinks always of virtue;
the common man thinks of comfort.
?Confucius
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these
are the attributes that give
our lives power and vividness and joy.
?Richard Halloway
Blushing is the color of virtue.
?Diogenes
