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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
— Charles Caleb Colton
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
— Menzies Campbell
Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.
— Henning Mankell
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.
— Bryant McGill
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
— Thomas Jefferson
Kindness may be the most difficult of virtues, but when I have encountered it, it has meant everything to me.
— George Hodgman
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
— Henry George
The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
— Herman Melville
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
we must by every means implant in the field of our heart the seeds of the virtues, faith, hope in God, and love for God and our neighbour,
— John Of Kronstadt
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
— Walter Gilbert
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
— Edward Gibbon
His virtues walked their narrow round,Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
And sure the Eternal Master found
The single talent well employed. — Samuel Johnson
When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.
— Paul Enenche
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
— Saint Augustine
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
— William Wycherley
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
— Honore De Balzac
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
— Vernon Howard
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
— Ethel Waters
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
— Winston S. Churchill
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
— David Mallet
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
— Joseph Joubert
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
— Hannah More
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
— Winston Churchill
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
But when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
— Amitai Etzioni
The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
— Billy Graham
Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
— Confucius
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
— James Jones
Replace your religiosity with the virtues of personal work with God
— Sunday Adelaja
Well,Happiness and sadness are two virtues of mind.When one captures you,other is no more in the frame.
— Sarang Mahajan
In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.
— C.V. Wedgwood
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
— Russell Kirk
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
— Arthur Helps
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
— John Steinbeck
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
— Cato The Younger
Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
— Stewart Stafford
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
— Vincent De Paul
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
— Sunday Adelaja
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
— Norm MacDonald
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
— Julia Glass
The neuroses parody the virtues.
— Mason Cooley
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others
— Bertrand Russell
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
— Confucius
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
— Napoleon Hill
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
— William Gilmore Simms
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
— Clare Boothe Luce
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
— Samuel Johnson
All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.
— C.J.S. Hayward
while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible.
— Christopher Hitchens
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
— Aleister Crowley
To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective - a virtuous society - America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.
— Patrick Mendis
The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.
— Timothy Snyder
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
— Henry Miller
People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.
— Sunday Adelaja
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
— Jeremy Collier
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.
— Sunday Adelaja
We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.
— Lujan Matus
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
— Samuel Johnson
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
— B. Carroll Reece
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
— Daniel Barenboim
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
— Laurence Sterne
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
— Ezra Taft Benson
