Virtue Quotes

• "The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."
  By: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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• "Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
  By: Lord Chesterfield
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• "Good government is the outcome of private virtue."
  By: John Jay Chapman
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• "A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful."
  By: John Jay Chapman
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• "Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists."
  By: Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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• "Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
  By: Albert Camus
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• "I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."
  By: Lord George Byron
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• "Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."
  By: Samuel Butler
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• "A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
  By: Samuel Butler
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• "If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue."
  By: George Bush
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• "Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
  By: William S. Burroughs
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• "Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to."
  By: William S. Burroughs
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• "Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."
  By: Edmund Burke
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