It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
Virtue must shape itself in deed.
Tart, cathartic virtue.
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.