| Author |
Quotes |
| Adam Smith | Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. |
| Albert Camus | Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. |
| Albert J Nock | Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. |
| Alexander Comfort | We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | One's outlook is a part of his virtue. |
| Bible | But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. |
| Christian Nevell Bovee | The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. |
| Claudian | Virtue is indeed its own reward. |
| Claudian | Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. |
| Diogenes | Blushing is the color of virtue. |
| Don Marquis | Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. |
| Ed Howe | Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. |
| English Proverb | Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. |
| Fredrich Nietzsche | And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones. |
| G K Chesterton | Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. |
| Georg C Lichtenberg | Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. |
| George Santayana | It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. |
| Isadora Duncan | Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. |
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