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#virtue

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #virtue




Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.


Ninon de L'Enclos


#awkwardness #conquests #lose #men #more

The immoral can no more earn respect Than the envious be rich.


Thiruvalluvar


#right-conduct #virtue #respect

Virtue is harmony.


Pythagoras


#virtue

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.


Sallust


#fleeting #fragile #glorious #glory #goes

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.


Joseph A. Schumpeter


#civilization #creates #educates #inevitably #interest

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.


Algernon Sidney


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #cannot #corruption #established

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.


Algernon Sidney


#commanders #equally #excel #fit #free

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.


Sydney Smith


#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.


David Mallet


#events #founded #meets #strong #true

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.


Baruch Spinoza


#benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice #mere






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