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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it (Virtue Quotes)
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free (Virtue Quotes)
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about... Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don’t have all the answers, to think that they do (Virtue Quotes)
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable, or easy (Virtue Quotes)
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization (Virtue Quotes)
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom (Virtue Quotes)
Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it (Virtue Quotes)
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one’s time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need (Virtue Quotes)
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct (Virtue Quotes)
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship (Virtue Quotes)
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man (Virtue Quotes)
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity (Virtue Quotes)
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety (Virtue Quotes)
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging (Virtue Quotes)
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever (Virtue Quotes)
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm (Virtue Quotes)
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state (Virtue Quotes)
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist (Virtue Quotes)
While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin (Virtue Quotes)
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money (Virtue Quotes)
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence (Virtue Quotes)
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals (Virtue Quotes)
If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great security (Virtue Quotes)
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! (Virtue Quotes)
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space (Virtue Quotes)
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved (Virtue Quotes)
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute (Virtue Quotes)
For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold (Virtue Quotes)
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced (Virtue Quotes)