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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.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.