(911 quotes found)
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Aristotle
“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.”
Confucius
“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it”
Samuel Beckett
“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
Anatole France
“Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”
William Saroyan
“Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.”
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
Elizabeth Blackwell
