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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps (Virtue Quotes)
Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature (Virtue Quotes)
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance (Virtue Quotes)
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys (Virtue Quotes)
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert (Virtue Quotes)
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them (Virtue Quotes)
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other (Virtue Quotes)
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes (Virtue Quotes)
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue (Virtue Quotes)
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 (Virtue Quotes)
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue (Virtue Quotes)
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you’re instructed to make people laugh and please them, you’re too resentful to do it (Virtue Quotes)
If virtue holds the secret, don’t defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us (Virtue Quotes)
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge (Virtue Quotes)
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage (Virtue Quotes)
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company (Virtue Quotes)
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset (Virtue Quotes)
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Don’t look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them (Virtue Quotes)
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice (Virtue Quotes)
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos (Virtue Quotes)
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins (Virtue Quotes)
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her (Virtue Quotes)
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown (Virtue Quotes)
Seneca’s virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary (Virtue Quotes)
Moral virtue is... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle (Virtue Quotes)
Purpose... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts (Virtue Quotes)
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members (Virtue Quotes)
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue (Virtue Quotes)