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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
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
Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.
— John Bruna
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
— Mason Cooley
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
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