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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. — Anatole France

The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them! — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Virtue!
to be good and just
Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean De La Bruyere

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Good and great are seldom in the same man. — Winston S. Churchill

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ... — Ann Radcliffe

Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good. — John Bruna

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old. — Gautama Buddha

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. — Raheel Farooq

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle.

Which is another way of saying that people will pay good money to avoid the demands of virtue — Stefan Molyneux

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. — Alexander Pope

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application. — Roger Kimball

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice. — Samuel Smiles

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue. — Ambrose

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. — William Shakespeare

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Laozi

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. — Izaak Walton

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue. — Cassandra Clare

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. — Ralph Venning

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. — Edward Abbey

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. — Mark Udall

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology. — Angela Carter

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle.

My good intentions are completely lethal. — Margaret Atwood

Good things come ... " Her head fell back, giving him total access to her throat "to those who wait.' Patience is a virtue, Alistair. — Cristiane Serruya

Suspicion is a virtue as long its object is the preservation of public good — Patrick Henry

For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use — Aristotle.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. — Luc De Clapiers

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. — Henry David Thoreau

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time. — Mary Renault

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. — Frank Wedekind

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of. — Vicki Robin

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. — Thomas Aquinas

If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause. — James Ussher

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? — Chanakya

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions. — Mason Cooley

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation. — Maya Angelou

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca The Younger

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. — Joseph Addison

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people. — Patrick Henry

Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept? — Edward Hooker Dewey

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you — Thiruvalluvar

Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life. — Aristotle.

Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Good government is the outcome of private virtue. — John Jay Chapman

Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue. — Marquis De Sade

The virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better. — Pamela Frankau

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters. — John L'Heureux

The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue. — Seneca.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. — Mae West

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die! — Gerry Lindgren

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. — Plutarch

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. — Seneca The Younger

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. — Hannah More

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. — Gautama Buddha

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. — Buddha

The idea of God is very useful,' Napoleon said, 'to maintain good order, to keep men in the path of virtue and to keep them from crime. — Andrew Roberts

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return. — Thiruvalluvar

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. — Thomas Jefferson

He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good. — Laozi

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. — Peter Kreeft

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. — Joseph Butler

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. — Raheel Farooq

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. — Philip Sidney

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. — William Godwin

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. — Voltaire

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. — Horace

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. — Aristotle.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. — Mason Cooley

The good hate sin because they love virtue.
[Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.] — Horace

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. — Ovid

When I was a child ... Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. — Bertrand Russell

It's always been interesting to me how we mistake good genes for virtue. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. — Raheel Farooq

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works. — Thomas The Apostle

This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others, — Plato

Every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him. — A.W. Tozer

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul. — Plato

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good. — Aristotle.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra