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- Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. -- Victor Hugo
- Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. -- Indira Gandhi
- To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. -- Confucius
- Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington
- Virtue can only flourish among equals. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Great necessities call out great virtues. -- Abigail Adams
- Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke
- Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke
- Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan
- What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -- Aristotle
- The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. -- Confucius
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. -- Thomas Paine
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -- C. S. Lewis
- All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. -- Plato
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. -- George Washington
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. -- Maya Angelou
- Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. -- Ayn Rand
- History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. -- Douglas MacArthur
- Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. -- Joseph Story
- I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them. -- A. S. Byatt
- In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue. -- Samuel Williams
- That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice. -- James Madison
- Virtue is not photogenic. -- Kirk Douglas
- Virtue is not hereditary. -- Thomas Paine
- Virtue is insufficient temptation. -- George Bernard Shaw
- Virtue proceeds through effort. -- Euripides
- Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. -- Dean Koontz
- Disobedience was man's Original Virtue. -- Robert Anton Wilson
- Virtue lives when Beauty dies. -- Bill Vaughan
- Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. -- Plato
- Virtue is presupposed in friendship. -- Walter Savage Landor
- Virtue consists in fleeing vice. -- Horace
- Virtue alone is happiness below. -- Alexander Pope
- Virtue knows no color line ... -- Ida B. Wells
- Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. -- Dean Koontz
- Virtue is the truest nobility. -- Miguel de Cervantes
- Virtue is not always amiable. -- John Adams
- Virtue alone is true nobility. -- William Gifford
- Virtue which shuns, the day. -- Joseph Addison
- Virtue is no empty echo. -- Friedrich Schiller
- Virtue is her own reward. -- John Dryden
- Virtue is its own reward. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Virtue has need of limits. -- Charles de Secondate
- Virtue has needs of limits. -- Baron de Montesquieu
- Virtue is its own revenge. -- Yip Harburg
- Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition -- William Shakespeare
- Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. -- William Shakespeare
- Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. -- Voltaire
- HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills. -- Bill Watterson
- Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Virtue's a stronger guard than brass. -- Edmund Waller
- Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs. -- Mason Cooley
- Virtue is health, vice is sickness. -- Petrarch
- Virtue is indeed its own reward. -- Claudius Claudianus
- Virtue must shape itself in deed. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Virtue lies in the middle ground. -- Jose Rizal
- Virtue is too often merely local. -- Samuel Johnson
- Virtue makes for a cold bed. -- Ava Zavora
- Virtue only is the true beauty. -- Samuel Richardson
- Virtue alone has majesty in death. -- Edward Young
- Virtue is necessary to a republic. -- Baron de Montesquieu
- Virtue that wavers is not virtue. -- John Milton
- Virtue creates reputation, but action brings success. -- Debasish Mridha
- Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep. -- Torquato Tasso
- Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. -- Benjamin Franklin
- Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. -- Claudius Claudianus
- Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
- Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -- William Shakespeare
- Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. -- Christopher Marlowe
- Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. -- Silius Italicus
- Virtue is reason which has become energy. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. -- Benjamin Franklin
- Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. -- Christopher Marlowe
- Virtue is nothing else than right reason -- Seneca the Younger
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde
- Virtue is the health of the soul. -- Joseph Joubert
- Virtue is the beauty of the soul. -- Socrates
- Virtue is the first title of nobility. -- Moliere
- Without Virtue there can be no liberty -- Benjamin Rush
- Virtue is to herself the best reward. -- Henry More
- Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere. -- Mason Cooley
- Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. -- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. -- Robert Cecil
- Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. -- Statius
- Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity. -- Seneca the Younger
- Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together. -- Sophie Swetchine
- Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. -- Horace
- Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. -- Joseph Joubert
- Virtue is safe only when it is inspired. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
- Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride. -- John Milton
- Virtue has never been as respectable as money. -- Mark Twain
- Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore. -- John Milton
- Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. -- Friedrich Schiller
- Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. -- Honore de Balzac
- Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
- Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause. -- Richard Flanagan
- Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament. -- Honore de Balzac
- Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. -- Frank Wedekind
- Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness. -- Ezra Taft Benson
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon
- Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. -- James Russell Lowell
- Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance. -- Saadi
- Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. -- Gottfried Leibniz
- Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature. -- John Bradshaw
- The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. -- Samuel Richardson
- Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise. -- N. T. Wright
- Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors -- Confucius
- Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle
- Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune. -- Friedrich Schiller
- Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God. -- Elaine S. Dalton
- Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him. -- Caitlin Thomas
- Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me? -- Confucius
- Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. -- John Milton
- Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. -- Eugene Sue
- Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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