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  • Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  • There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge
  • Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

    USA Today, March 5, 1988.
  • Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

    Stones   Rich   Virtue  
    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'
  • Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions
  • The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

    Men   Vices   Virtue  
    Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

    Men   Two   Heaven  
    David Hume (1824). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition”, p.118
  • To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

    Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”
  • Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

  • Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

    Eye   Mirrors   Vices  
  • Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

    Courage   Army   Bravery  
    In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31
  • Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

  • Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

    Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964
  • There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52
  • Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

    Nice   Vices   Virtue  
  • Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

    Thinking   Vices   Looks  
  • It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

    Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy
  • Vice is its own reward.

    Vices   Rewards   Virtue  
  • When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

    Pain   War   4th Of July  
    Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.38, Penguin
  • Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

    Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.464
  • Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

    Life   Vices   Virtue  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow
  • One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

    "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.
  • Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

    Vices   Ugly   Virtue  
    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.133, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

  • Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

  • Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

    James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117
  • Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

    'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2
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