Virtue Loss Quotes

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.