Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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