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The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
— Blaise Pascal
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
— John Locke
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
— Brendan Behan
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
— Ayn Rand
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[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
— Samuel Johnson
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
— Ruth Benedict
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)
— George Gordon Byron
She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.
— Alyssa Kress
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
— Raheel Farooq
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
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
— Samuel Butler
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
— Henry Wotton
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
— William Hazlitt
By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
— Antonin Artaud
What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
— Marquis De Sade
The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
— Blaise Pascal
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
— Samuel Beckett
He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
— Greg Mortenson
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— C.S. Lewis
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
— Blaise Pascal
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
— Francis Bacon
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
— Epictetus
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
— Mark Twain
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
— Miguel De Cervantes
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
— Henry David Thoreau
A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.
— Michael Bassey
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
— Ernest Renan
Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle.
— G.K. Chesterton
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
— Sinclair Lewis
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.
— Blaise Pascal
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
— Gertrude Atherton
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas A Kempis
A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
— George Washington
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
— Baruch Spinoza
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
— John Of Salisbury
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
— Thornton Wilder
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
— Doreen Virtue
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
— Joseph Addison
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
— Max Eastman
A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")
— William Beckford
