Top Virtue Quotes
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
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.
George Orwell
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Jane Porter 
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Francois Fenelon
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And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
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In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil
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I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
Robert Benton
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Popular Virtue Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawWilliam ShakespeareOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston ChurchillSamuel ButlerAmbrose Bierce
Benjamin DisraeliThomas Carlyle Plato AristotleGilbert K. Chesterton SophoclesFrancis BaconBlaise PascalWilliam Hazlitt OvidAlbert CamusAlexander PopeMichel de MontaigneHonore De BalzacGeorge Orwell
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