"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

Virtue, Excellence, Faults, Vice

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"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Virtue, Kindness, Compassion, Happiness, Empathy

"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Virtue, Mercy, Truth, Love, Respect

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Virtue, Nature, Perfection, Life

"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Virtue, Vice

"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Virtue, Modesty, Poets, World

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Mind, Virginity

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Laws, Support

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Virtue, Moderation, Temper, Vice

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Virtue, Comfort, Man

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"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails."

Honor

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

Nation

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

Time

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

Humility

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

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"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

Friendship

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails."

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

"Tenderness is a virtue."

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."