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Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country (Virtue Quotes)
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands (Virtue Quotes)
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything (Virtue Quotes)
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him (Virtue Quotes)
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste (Virtue Quotes)
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt (Virtue Quotes)
In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it’s only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones (Virtue Quotes)
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received (Virtue Quotes)
As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events (Virtue Quotes)
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed (Virtue Quotes)
Whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other (Virtue Quotes)
People who don’t like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them (Virtue Quotes)
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker (Virtue Quotes)
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre (Virtue Quotes)
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral (Virtue Quotes)
By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover (Virtue Quotes)
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order (Virtue Quotes)
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master (Virtue Quotes)
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue (Virtue Quotes)
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions (Virtue Quotes)
The merit of those who fill a space in the world’s history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue (Virtue Quotes)
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish (Virtue Quotes)
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless (Virtue Quotes)
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it (Virtue Quotes)
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued (Virtue Quotes)
Always leave a sinking ship. There’s no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don’t have feelings (Virtue Quotes)
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue (Virtue Quotes)
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true (Virtue Quotes)
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company (Virtue Quotes)