Virtue Quotes
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Remorse is virtue`s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness
William Cullen Bryant
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
Thomas Paine
Subject: Moderation Quotes :: Virtue QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If noble death be virtue`s chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom`s crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest
Simonides
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A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living
Rudolf Steiner
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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
Proverb
Subject: Beauty Quotes :: Virtue QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
Paul Eipper
Subject: Sympathy QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
Paul Bourget
Subject: Flirting QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a sign of experience.
Ninon de Lenclos
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Subject: Skepticism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Moliere
Subject: Vice Quotes :: Virtue QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
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By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever
Lao Tzu
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Subject: Wisdom QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order...
Joseph Story
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue
Joseph Addison
Subject: Modesty QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Subject: Modesty Quotes :: Virtue QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Subject: Self-respect QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.
James Dee Richardson
Subject: Hard Work QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Subject: Remorse QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius
Subject: Humility QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice
Baruch Spinoza
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