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Virtue

«Virtue is reason which has become energy.»
«Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.»
Author: Christopher Marlowe (Playwright, Poet) | About: Virtue | Keywords: fount, founts, honour, whence
«Virtue is not knowing but doing»
Author: Japanese Proverb | About: Virtue
«Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.»
«Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.»
Author: Confucius | About: Virtue | Keywords: neighbors, practices
«Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors»
Author: Confucius | About: Virtue | Keywords: bound, neighbors, solitary
«Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.»
«Virtue is too often merely local.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Virtue
«Virtue is the only true nobility.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Virtue | Keywords: nobility
«Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | About: Virtue | Keywords: by-product, functioning