Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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.
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
