virtue Quotes

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:virtue value

“Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“People can’t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can’t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you’re stronger, it’s so much easier to imagine you’re weaker.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Every human virtue and every vice has been fashionable for a while and then unfashionable.”

― Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master

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