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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
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
— Samuel Johnson
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
— Norm MacDonald
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
— James Oliver
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
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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
Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues
— David Mitchell
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
— Herman Melville
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our virtues and view spring from one root.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
— Stephen R. Prothero
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
— William Shenstone
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
— Walter Gilbert
Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.
— Anthony Trollope
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
— B. Carroll Reece
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
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.
— Lujan Matus
All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.
— Sunday Adelaja
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
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
What is a woman's greatest virtue?Patience. — India Edghill
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
— H.L. Mencken
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
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
— Jeremy Collier
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
— Joan D. Chittister
Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.
— C.J.S. Hayward
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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
There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence.
— Leo Tolstoy
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
— Anton Chekhov
To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective - a virtuous society - America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.
— Patrick Mendis
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.
— Wallace D. Wattles
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
— Arthur Helps
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
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
— Luc De Clapiers
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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 the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
— Aleister Crowley
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
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
— Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
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
