VIRTUE

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(932 votes)  Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(930 votes)  Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(912 votes)  God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(871 votes)  All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(827 votes)  Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(638 votes)  There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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(606 votes)  Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams
1744-1818, American Letter Writer

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(593 votes)  Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(582 votes)  You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(580 votes)  Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(570 votes)  Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras
BC 582-507, Greek Philosopher, Mathematician

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(569 votes)  Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Isadora Duncan
1878-1927, American Dancer

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(568 votes)  I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(562 votes)  Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin

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(559 votes)  A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Minna Antrim
1861-18?, American Epigrammist

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(553 votes)  Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(530 votes)  With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.

Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(524 votes)  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(518 votes)  Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(509 votes)  Virtue is its own reward.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(502 votes)  Virtue alone is invincible.

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(500 votes)  I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

Mae West
1892-1980, American Actress

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(497 votes)  The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman

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(497 votes)  Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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(496 votes)  Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(495 votes)  Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Natalie Clifford Barney
1876-1972, American-born French Author

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(495 votes)  The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust
BC 86-34, Roman Historian

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(495 votes)  Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(493 votes)  People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher

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(493 votes)  Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan
1851-1931, American Biologist, Educator

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(491 votes)  Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

Mae West
1892-1980, American Actress

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(483 votes)  Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(483 votes)  Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(481 votes)  Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare
1947-, British Playwright, Director

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(478 votes)  Virtue is the strongest shield.

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(478 votes)  It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1855-1919, American Poet, Journalist

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(476 votes)  If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

George Bush
1924-, Forty-first President of the USA

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(476 votes)  It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(474 votes)  People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(471 votes)  Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young
1932-, Civil Rights Activist, Protestant Minister, Public Official

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(470 votes)  It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(468 votes)  The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lady Constance Lytton

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(467 votes)  Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Sir John Vanbrugh
1664-1726, British Playwright and Baroque architect

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(461 votes)  The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(459 votes)  If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

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(456 votes)  Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith
1723-1790, Scottish Economist

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(452 votes)  Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Billy Boy Franklin

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(452 votes)  Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(448 votes)  To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(432 votes)  The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Francis H. Bradley
1846-1924, British Philosopher

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