Vices are simply overworked virtues..
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves….
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue..
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody..
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural..
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them..
What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat..
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind..
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue..
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue..
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness..
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue..
In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than anoth….
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible..
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman..
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience..
I do think vulnerability is a virtue..
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised..
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?.
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue..
By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and decl….