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Virtue is her own reward. -- John Dryden
The word "virtue" was once found in so many ancient quotes, yet now seems lost in our modern lives. -- Robert Colton
Virtue holds eternity in its hands. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
The whole of virtue consists in its practice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue only is the true beauty. -- Samuel Richardson
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. -- Josh Billings
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others. -- Democritus
On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it. -- Marsha Hinds
Your virtue is the health of your soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection. -- Seneca.
Virtue is not always amiable. -- John Adams
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts. -- Seneca The Younger
Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path. -- Michel De Montaigne
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity. -- Seneca The Younger
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. -- William S. Burroughs
Virtue which shuns, the day. -- Joseph Addison
What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist? -- Anne Bronte
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. -- Plato
Virtue is to herself the best reward. -- Henry More
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. -- Confucius
Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance. -- Saadi
Virtue alone is true nobility. -- William Gifford
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. -- John Locke
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. -- Statius
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather. -- Isaac Barrow
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. -- Benjamin Franklin
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. -- Emmuska Orczy
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs. -- Christopher Marlowe
In the approach to virtue there are many steps. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage. -- Demosthenes
The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised. -- Aristotle.
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means. -- Terry Eagleton
Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue. -- Benjamin Franklin
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. -- Honore De Balzac
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. -- Seneca The Younger
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors -- Confucius
Virtue alone has majesty in death. -- Edward Young
Without Virtue there can be no liberty -- Benjamin Rush
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. -- Aristotle.
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason. -- Laozi
Is virtue something that can be taught? -- Plato
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. -- Voltaire
For 'activity in conformity with virtue' involves virtue. -- Aristotle.
Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors. -- Confucius
Virtue lies in moderation -- Aristotle.
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works. -- Seneca The Younger
Virtue springs from love.
Love springs from God. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Virtue is not hereditary. -- Thomas Paine
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes. -- Randy Cohen
Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition -- William Shakespeare
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. -- Francis Bacon
Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice. -- Francis Quarles
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. -- Silius Italicus
Successful villany is called virtue. -- Seneca The Younger
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. -- George Bernard Shaw
For virtue only finds eternal Fame. -- Petrarch
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. -- John Henry Newman
We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue. -- Aristotle.
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which men call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by our passions, to which one gives an honest name in order to do with impunity whatever one wishes. -- La Rochefoucauld
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection. -- Frederick William Robertson
Kindness is virtue itself. -- Alphonse De Lamartine
Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such. -- Ameen Rihani
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. -- Archibald Alexander
The great theatre for virtue is conscience. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position. -- Honore De Balzac
There is no virtue if there is no immortality. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life. -- Ayn Rand
Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing. -- Barbara Pym
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable. -- Thomas Carlyle
I've come to believe that virtue isn't a condition of character. It's an elected action. It's a choice we keep making, over and over, hoping that someday we'll create a habit so strong it will carry us through our bouts of pettiness and meanness. -- Rhoda Janzen
Virtue consisteth of three parts,
temperance, fortitude, and justice. -- Epicurus
Virtue is the truest liberty. -- Owen Feltham
Virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence. -- Aristotle.
The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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. -- Laozi
A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does ... -- Catherine Brady
Most virtue lies between two vices. -- Horace
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired. -- Michel De Montaigne
If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue. -- Tom Robbins
Virtue lies in the middle ground. -- Jose Rizal
Virtue makes for a cold bed. -- Ava Zavora
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. -- Horace Walpole
Too much virtue can be criminal. -- Jean Racine
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong. -- Wilkie Collins
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. -- Horace
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
