Virtue has needs of limits.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.
In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!
Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.
Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?
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