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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. -- Sidney Lanier
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues -- Benjamin Franklin
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. -- William Shenstone
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. -- George Crabbe
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ... -- Eliza Haywood
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. -- Benjamin Franklin
Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling. -- Allen W. Wood
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. -- Klaus Kinski
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. -- Benjamin Franklin
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. -- William Shenstone
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives. -- Jonathan V. Last
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. -- Aristotle
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. -- Josh Billings
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not. -- Joseph Hall
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Great necessities call out great virtues. -- Abigail Adams
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -- Aristotle
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. -- Michel de Montaigne
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects. -- Jenni Rivera
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. -- Aleister Crowley
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. -- Walter Scott
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. -- Nikola Tesla
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -- C. S. Lewis
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. -- Gautama Buddha
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. -- Samuel Johnson
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -- Elizabeth Taylor
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. -- Honore de Balzac
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
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. -- James E. Faust
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. -- Haile Selassie
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
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. -- Francis Bacon
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain. -- Jose Rizal
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. -- Saint Ignatius
Idleness breeds our better virtues. -- William Faulkner
Vices are simply overworked virtues ... -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. -- Ambrose Bierce
The neuroses parody the virtues. -- Mason Cooley
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults. -- Edgar Cayce
The Gods rank work above virtues. -- Hesiod
Satan paints sin with virtues colors. -- Thomas Brooks
Courage and clemency are equal virtues. -- Delarivier Manley
All great virtues become great men. -- Pierre Corneille
Frugality includes all the other virtues. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.... -- William Butler Yeats
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues. -- Ted Malloch
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. -- William Wordsworth
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. -- John Dryden
Without courage, all other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey
Saving the virtues includes all other advantages -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. -- Sargent Shriver
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. -- George Farquhar
One is punished best for one's virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Endurance is the queen of all virtues. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Let frugality and industry be our virtues. -- John Adams
One seldom loves people for their virtues. -- M. V. Heberden
Frugality is the mother of all virtues. -- Justinian I
Patience is the greatest of all virtues. -- Cato the Elder
Modesty is not one of my virtues. -- Alan King
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. -- Pleasant Rowland
Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues. -- Max Anders
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. -- Kenneth Minogue
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. -- John Keegan
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. -- Bertrand Russell
In justice is all virtues found in sum. -- Aristotle
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. -- Confucius
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues. -- Denis Diderot
Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Let us go home and cultivate our virtues. -- Robert E. Lee
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. -- Sydney Smith
Our virtues and view spring from one root. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues. -- Moses ibn Ezra
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning. -- Winston Churchill
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. -- C. S. Lewis
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin Franklin
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. -- Plato
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. -- Plutarch
The home is the chief school of human virtues. -- William Ellery Channing
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem. -- William Dunbar
no one ever gossips about the virtues of others -- Bertrand Russell
Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none. -- John Donne
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues -- Benjamin Franklin
Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues. -- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. -- Walter Gilbert
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. -- Maya Angelou
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. -- Muriel Spark
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism. -- Ted Malloch
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable. -- Judith Martin
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. -- John Locke
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues. -- Krista Tippett
Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues. -- Ma Jaya
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues -- Agesilaus II
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down. -- Leonard of Port Maurice
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. -- Thomas Hobbes
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. -- Herman Melville

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