Inspirational Quotations on Virtue

  • Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.
    Author: Denis Diderot
    From Issue 326
  • Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
    Author: Mark Twain
    From Issue 329
  • Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
    Author: Horace Mann
    From Issue 332
  • The door to virtue is heavy and hard to push.
    Author: Chinese Proverb
    From Issue 333
  • We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
    From Issue 344

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