#virtue

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desiring #vice #virtue

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beauty #glory #humanity #knowledge #love

The love of economy is the root of all virtue. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#love #root #virtue

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#temptation #virtue

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#trade #unionism #virtue

Modesty is the color of virtue. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#modesty #virtue

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#alone #christ #eternal #eternal life #faith

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

#philosophy #power #public-service #tyranny #virtue

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#longer #miss #say #shame #sin

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #measure #misfortune #pleasure