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| Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~ Horace Mann |
| We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Blushing is the color of virtue. ~ Diogenes |
| Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm. ~ Denis Diderot, |
| Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~ Charles Caleb Colton |
| Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. ~ André Maurois, |
| Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Virtue is its own revenge. ~ E.Y. Harburn |
| All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh |
| The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded. ~ Henry Miller |
| Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld |
| A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~ Anne Petry |
| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~ Voltaire |
| Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. ~ Robert S. Lynd |
| The excess of virtue is a vice. ~ Greek Proverb |
| Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~ Hugh Prather |
| They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Water which is too pure has no fish. ~ Ts’ai Ken T’an |
| On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~ George Orwell |
| It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~ Edith Sitwell |
| Some folks wear their halos much too tight. ~ Author Unknown |
| What, after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean. ~ Christopher Fry |
| We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ~ La Rochefoucauld, |