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Virtue is its own reward. Marcus Tullius Cicero Virtue 309
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. Bergen Evans Virtue 278
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. Benjamin Franklin Virtue 215
The enemy is within the gates it is with our own luxury our own folly our own criminality that we have to contend. Marcus Tullius Cicero Virtue 189
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson Virtue 183
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius Virtue 145
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. Natalie Clifford Barney Virtue 139
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith Virtue 120
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. Mark Twain Virtue 119
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young Virtue 119
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. Confucius Virtue 118
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle Virtue 117
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. Charles Simmons Virtue 110
Virtue is the only true nobility. Thomas Fuller Virtue 109
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree. Alexander Pope Virtue 106
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru Virtue 100
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato Virtue 100
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Albert Camus Virtue 100
Though conditions have grown puzzling in their complexity, though changes have been vast, yet we may remain absolutely sure of one thing; that now as ever in the past, and as it will ever be in the future, there can be no substitute for elemental virtues, for the elemental qualities to which we allude when we speak of a man, not only as a good man, but as emphatically a man. We can build up the standard of individual citizenship and individual well-being, we can raise the national standard and make it what it can and shall be made, only by each of us steadfastly keeping in mind that there can be no substitute for the world-old commonplace qualities of truth, justice, and courage, thrift, industry, common sense and genuine sympathy with the fellow feelings of others. Theodore Roosevelt Virtue 99
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. Sigmund Freud Virtue 97
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. Aristotle Virtue 96
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke Virtue 95
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women. Confucius Virtue 93
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle Virtue 93
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues. Lady Constance Lytton Virtue 92
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Adam Smith Virtue 92
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue. Oliver Goldsmith Virtue 90
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. Thomas Carlyle Virtue 90
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. John Milton Virtue 90
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! Charles Dickens Virtue 90
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. Thomas Carlyle Virtue 89
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain Virtue 89
I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt Virtue 88
The virtue in most request is conformity. Ralph Waldo Emerson Virtue 88
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. Christian Nevell Bovee Virtue 88
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. Philip Sidney Virtue 87
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 Virtue 86
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. English Proverbs Virtue 84
The vices of some men are magnificent. Charles Lamb Virtue 84
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. Edward W. Howe Virtue 84
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. Luis Bunuel Virtue 83
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. G. K. Chesterton Virtue 83
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice! Marquis De Sade Virtue 83
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue these five things are gravity generosity of soul sincerity earnestness and kindness. Confucius Virtue 83
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. Confucius Virtue 83
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say. William James Virtue 82
I desire Virtue, though I love her not-I have no faith in her when she is got:I fear that she will bind and make me slaveAnd send me songless to the sullen grave. Anna Wickham Virtue 81
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. Laurence Hope Nicolson Virtue 80
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. F. Scott Fitzgerald Virtue 80
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. Francis H. Bradley Virtue 80

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