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Virtue

Some folks wear their halos much too tight. – Author Unknown

With virtue you cant be entirely poor; without virtue you cant really be rich. – Chinese Proverb

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. – Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. – Natalie Clifford Barney

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3 – Bible

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 24 – Bible

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. – Christian Nevell Bovee

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. – Christian Nevell Bovee

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. – Francis H. Bradley

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. – Thomas Edward Brown

There is no road or ready way to virtue. – Sir Thomas Browne

If weve learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue. – George Bush

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler