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Quotes By subject - Starting with V - Virtue
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There are 28 quotes for the subject Virtue
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Author: Socrates
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Author: Plato
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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