“Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.”
― Adam Grant
“Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.”
― Adam Grant
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
― Adam Smith
“Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.”
― Adela Florence Nicolson
“Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”
― Adlai Stevenson I
“Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.”
― Albert Camus
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
― Albert Einstein
“We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.”
― Alex Comfort
“The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
― Alexander Pope
“Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.”
― Alexander Pope
“If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.”
― Algernon Sidney
“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”
― Alphonse Karr
“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
― Ambrose Bierce
“Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
― Ambrose Bierce
“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
― Anatole France
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
― Anatole France
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
― Anatole France
“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”
― Aristotle
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
― Aristotle
“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
“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
― Augustus Hare
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.”
― Ayn Rand
“When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.”
― Barbara Amiel
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
― Barry Goldwater
“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
― Baruch Spinoza
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.”
― Baruch Spinoza
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
― Baruch Spinoza
“Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t’will be virtue.”
― Ben Jonson
“It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.”
― Benito Mussolini
“Cheapness is a great virtue.”
― Bill Bryson
“Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens – so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.”
― Bill Kristol
“The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”
― Blaise Pascal
“Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.”
― Bob Riley
“Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.”
― Bret Stephens
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
― C. S. Lewis
“I always admired virtue – but I could never imitate it.”
― Charles II
“Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.”
― Charles Lindbergh
“Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”
― Charles Revson
“Uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
― Chester W. Nimitz
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee
“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
― Christopher Marlowe
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
― Confucius
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
― Confucius
“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.”
― Confucius
“Women’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.”
― Cornelia Otis Skinner
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
― Daniel Webster
“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.”
― David Hare
“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.”
― David Hume
“True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.”
― David Mallet
“Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.”
― David Mallet
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
― David Starr Jordan
“Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.”
― Dayananda Saraswati
“Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.”
― Dayananda Saraswati
“I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.”
― Deborah Sampson
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.”
― Denis Diderot
“Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.”
― Dick Cheney
“This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.”
― Dinesh D’Souza
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
― Diogenes
“Modesty is the color of virtue.”
― Diogenes
“Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.”
― Don Marquis
“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”
― Edith Wharton
“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
“To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.”
― Edmund Husserl
“Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.”
― Edward Dahlberg
“There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.”
― Edward Everett
“Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.”
― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
― Edward Young
“Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.”
― Edwin Louis Cole
“It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.”
― Elizabeth I
“All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.”
― Ephraim Mirvis
“For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.”
― Erwin Schrodinger
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh
“Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.”
― Ezra Taft Benson
“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”
― F. H. Bradley
“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
― Felix Adler
“The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.”
― Frances Wright
“Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.”
― Francis Atterbury
“Silence is the virtue of fools.”
― Francis Bacon
“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
“We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”
― Francois Fenelon
“Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.”
― Francois Rabelais
“Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.”
― Frank Wedekind
“Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.”
― Gary Bauer
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”
― Georg Buchner
“Virtue by premeditation isn’t worth much.”
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Virtue is insufficient temptation.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”
― George Bernard Shaw
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
― George Washington
“Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.”
― Geraldo Rivera
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Grover Norquist
“Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.”
― Hale White
“A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.”
― Han Fei
“What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.”
― Henry Fielding
“Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.”
― Henry IV of England
“The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
― Henry IV of England
“Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.”
― Henry Kissinger
“The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.”
― Hippocrates
“Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.”
― Horace Walpole
“Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.”
― Hosea Ballou
“Failing to see the point is not a virtue.”
― Howard Jacobson
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
― Indira Gandhi
“According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.”
― Irving Babbitt
“God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.”
― Isaac Newton
“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”
― Izaak Walton
“I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.”
― J. Paul Getty
“Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.”
― J. William Fulbright
“Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.”
― Jacob Rees-Mogg
“The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.”
― James Anthony Froude
“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.”
― James Buchan
“Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.”
― James Goldsmith
“In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.”
― James Q. Wilson
“Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.”
― Jane Porter
“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Too much virtue can be criminal.”
― Jean Racine
“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
― Jean Racine
“Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.”
― Jeremy Taylor
“This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.”
― Jessica Lange
“Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.”
― Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.”
― John Bradshaw
“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith
“They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.”
― John Morley
“Jesus’ life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.”
― John Ortberg
“No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.”
― John Robert Seeley
“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”
― John Webster
“The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ’s words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.”
― John Wycliffe
“I think that I’ve been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I’ve spent so much time in front of a green screen.”
― Jonathan Frakes
“Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.”
― Jonathan Mayhew
“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”
― Jose Marti
“Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.”
― Jose Rizal
“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.”
― Joseph A. Schumpeter
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
― Joseph Addison
“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
“Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.”
― Joyce Meyer
“Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.”
― Judith Martin
“Compassion is not a popular virtue.”
― Karen Armstrong
“No one can be saved – in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved – in virtue of what God can do.”
― Karl Barth
“Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Virtue is reason which has become energy.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.”
― Kingsley Amis
“Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.”
― Krista Tippett
“What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.”
― Krista Tippett
“Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.”
― Krista Tippett
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
― Lao Tzu
“Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.”
― Laura van den Berg
“Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.”
― Lawrence G. Lovasik
“If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.”
― Leo Strauss
“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”
― Lionel Trilling
“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.”
― Lord Byron
“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
― Luc de Clapiers
“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”
― Luc de Clapiers
“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
― Lyman Abbott
“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.”
― Lyman Abbott
“Everybody’s part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.”
― Marc Webb
“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Honor is the reward of virtue.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It’s a spiritual dissipation.”
― Margaret Deland
“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
― Marquis de Sade
“Elegance is inferior to virtue.”
― Mary Shelley
“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft
“Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.”
― Matthew Prior
“For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.”
― Matthew Prior
“Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.”
― Max Beerbohm
“Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.”
― Max Weber
“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.”
― Mencius
“I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all – far from it, really.”
― Michael Hintze
“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
― Michel de Montaigne
“Virtue is the truest nobility.”
― Miguel de Cervantes
“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”
― Miguel de Cervantes
“I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.”
― Moliere
“Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.”
― Mother Angelica
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney
“We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli
“The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.”
― Nick Harkaway
“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”
― Nicolas Chamfort
“Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.”
― Ninon de L’Enclos
“Tenderness is a virtue.”
― Oliver Goldsmith
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I’m really tired of virtue.”
― P. J. O’Rourke
“The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.”
― Paul Keating
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Petrarch
“Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.”
― Philip Massinger
“Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.”
― Philip Massinger
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”
― Plato
“We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.”
― Plato
“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”
― Plato
“Persevere in virtue and diligence.”
― Plautus
“Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.”
― Pope Francis
“Virtue is harmony.”
― Pythagoras
“Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.”
― Quentin Crisp
“The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.”
― Quintilian
“A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”
― Quintilian
“My favourite virtue is not having any.”
― Ram Gopal Varma
“What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.”
― Richard Mentor Johnson
“Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.”
― Richard N. Haass
“I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.”
― Robert Burns
“Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.”
― Robert Cecil
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.”
― Robert Herrick
“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”
― Robert Smith Surtees
“By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.”
― Robert Vaughn
“By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them.”
― Ronen Bergman
“Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.”
― Rudolf Hilferding
“A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.”
― Ruth Benedict
“Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.”
― Rutherford B. Hayes
“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”
― Saint Augustine
“Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.”
― Saint Francis de Sales
“The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.”
― Sallust
“I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.”
― Sally Phillips
“For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.”
― Samuel Alexander
“If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.”
― Samuel Butler
“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
― Samuel Butler
“In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.”
― Samuel Butler
“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
― Samuel Butler
“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
― Samuel Richardson
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there’s at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.”
― Sarah Hall
“As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary’s conspiracy against families and virtue.”
― Sheri L. Dew
“I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.”
― Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.”
― Silius Italicus
“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”
― Sophocles
“Whereas Jimmy Carter had aggressively pursued anti-merger activity – the imbecilic case against AT&T was prosecuted under President Carter – Mr. Reagan understood the virtue of allowing companies to exploit the synergies of mergers to gain efficiency and lower costs.”
― Stephen Moore
“I’m an entertainer. I don’t go round saying I’m a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.”
― Steve Coogan
“Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.”
― Tacitus
“I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.”
― Terry Eagleton
“The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles’ heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.”
― Theo Paphitis
“All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.”
― Theodore Hesburgh
“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.”
― Thomas Aquinas
“The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay
“For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.”
― Thomas Bulfinch
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
― Thomas Carlyle
“In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.”
― Thomas Gold
“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.”
― Thomas Malthus
“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
― Thomas Paine
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
― Thomas Paine
“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
― Thomas Paine
“The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family.”
― Tiger Woods
“No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or elsewhere.”
― Tobias Lutke
“Impatience is a virtue.”
― Ursula Burns
“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
― Victor Hugo
“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”
― Voltaire
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
― Voltaire
“I’m not saying I’m a paragon of virtue, but it’s hard for me not to be honorable.”
― Wayne Rogers
“There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.”
― Wendy Long
“We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.”
― Wilhelm Wundt
“Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.”
― Will Durant
“Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.”
― William Bennett
“Remorse is virtue’s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.”
― William Cullen Bryant
“Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.”
― William Godwin
“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
― William Hazlitt
“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem… ridiculous.”
― William Hazlitt
“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
― William Hazlitt
“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
― William S. Burroughs
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
― William Shakespeare
“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”
― William Shakespeare
“Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.”
― William Slim
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Winston Churchill
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