One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.
The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence (dans leur essence, Fr.) religious.
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.
And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue they hate the lonesome ones.
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
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