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Virtue Quotes
Quotes on honor, charity, and everyday character.
Several quotes here separate being honorable from being flawless, suggesting virtue is closer to a daily practice than a finished state. That grounded view of Integrity shapes much of the collection.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Job
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As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.
- Devotion
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
- Productivity
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
- Innocence
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
- Just
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
- Complexity
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There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
- Mind
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Poor
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What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
- Own
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Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
- Posterity
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Moderation
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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