#virtue

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#each #happiest #happiness #only #other

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#exactness #extremes #mind #moderation #narrows

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. ↗

— Chanakya

#balanced #contentment #covetousness #disease #equal

The home is the chief school of human virtues. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#chief #human #school #virtues

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#enough #further #go #out #place

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#today #tomorrow #vice #virtue

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#authoritative #belongs #conception #could #days

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#faithfulness #loyal #loyalty #virtue

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#bliss #dwell #heart #i #makes