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Quotes About Virtue

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
~ Sir Walter Scott
The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.
~ Sir William Blackstone
The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
~ sir winston churchill
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
~ Jonathan Edwards
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
~ Mencius
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
~ Philip Sidney
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
~ Plato
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.
~ Henry Taylor
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
~ Ayn Rand
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
~ Joseph Butler
For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.
~ Harold Percival
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
~ Paul Tillich
As chaste as unsunned snow.
~ William Shakespeare
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
~ Aristotle
Love's humility is love's true pride.
~ Bayard Taylor
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
~ Brennan Manning
He who is really kind, can never be unhappy
~ Confucius
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
~ Confucius
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
~ Confucius