What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
I’m not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it’s because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you’ve got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you’re constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master’s in four years. It wasn’t slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was angry and thought it was OK because his anger was righteous.
I’m not saying I’m a paragon of virtue, but it’s hard for me not to be honorable.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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.
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature – publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Failing to see the point is not a virtue.
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.
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.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.
In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility – what we might call a culture of virtue.
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they’re doing what they’re doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot – he’s the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country.
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
Humility is of central importance; I think it’s an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam’s central virtue – the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid – I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
