Top Virtue Quotes
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
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Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven 
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
91% of people like this quote
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
81% of people like this quote
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
81% of people like this quote
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawWilliam ShakespeareOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston ChurchillSamuel ButlerAmbrose Bierce
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