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Virtue

«Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.»
«We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn?t get in our way.»
Author: Sacha Guitry (Actor, Playwright) | About: Virtue, Women
«We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates»
Author: Denis Diderot | About: Vice, Virtue | Keywords: associates, liable, vices
«What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.»
«Virtue never dwells alone; it always has neighbors»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Virtue
«Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe (Editor, Essayist, Novelist) | About: Virtue | Keywords: degrees
«Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave»
«Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm - Shall in the happy trial prove most glory»
«What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Discovery, Virtue | Keywords: weed
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»