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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.

by Confucius Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

by Joseph Addison Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

by Adam Smith Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

by Sidney Lanier Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

by Lord Byron Found in: Vice Quotes, Virtue Quotes,
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Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

by Confucius Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.

What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Virtue Quotes,
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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

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