#virtue

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. ↗

— John Adams

#arise #circulation #coin #confederation #confusion

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#accessories #clothing #creating #customers #i

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#confidence #corrects #levity #school #sinning

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. ↗

— Karl Barth

#god #saved #virtue

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#inglorious #lowly #mediocrity #perseverance #success

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #call #exercise #fact #farce

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#attained #education #glory #more #natural

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all? ↗

— Joshua Emmet

#philosophy #virtue #freedom

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#been #called #console #fortune #great

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful. ↗

— Paul Bourget

#sin #virtue #love