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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue (Virtue Quotes)
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge (Virtue Quotes)
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death (Virtue Quotes)
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news (Virtue Quotes)
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb (Virtue Quotes)
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue (Virtue Quotes)
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine (Virtue Quotes)
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions (Virtue Quotes)
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress (Virtue Quotes)
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men (Virtue Quotes)
Society is indeed a contract.... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection (Virtue Quotes)
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves (Virtue Quotes)
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue (Virtue Quotes)
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one’s hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his (Virtue Quotes)
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one’s means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent (Virtue Quotes)
To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion (Virtue Quotes)
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior (Virtue Quotes)
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand (Virtue Quotes)
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it (Virtue Quotes)
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete (Virtue Quotes)
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue (Virtue Quotes)
When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again (Virtue Quotes)
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue (Virtue Quotes)
I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh (Virtue Quotes)
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue? (Virtue Quotes)
People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces (Virtue Quotes)
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is (Virtue Quotes)
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold (Virtue Quotes)