It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable..
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously..
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous..
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by ….
Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience..
High birth is an accident, not a virtue..
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue..
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice..
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?.
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness..
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue..
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is..
Is virtue something that can be taught?.
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass..
You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage That may secure you….
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have n….
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere..
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things….
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity..
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote..
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to thin….