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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

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.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.