Virtue Quotes

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Confucius

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Confucius

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Henry Fielding

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Henry David Thoreau

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Heinrich Suso

I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.There are several other cited sources of Roosevelt using this proverb.

Theodore Roosevelt, letter to He

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Lord Chesterfield

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Lord Chesterfield