Virtue Quotes

• "A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
  By: George Orwell
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• "The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue."
  By: Friedrich Nietzsche
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• "They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
  By: John Morley
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• "Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "Virtue craves a steep and thorny path."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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• "By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."
  By: Ashley Montagu
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• "Virtue that wavers is not virtue."
  By: John Milton
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• "Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place."
  By: John Milton
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• "High birth is an accident, not a virtue."
  By: Pietro Metastasio
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• "The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around."
  By: Mary McCarthy
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• "Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
  By: Philip Massinger
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• "When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue."
  By: Don Marquis
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• "The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it."
  By: Robert Lynd
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