Virtue Quotes

Humility and tenderness are not virtues of the weak, but of the strong.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.

Patience is a Virtue.

It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.