Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Whereas Jimmy Carter had aggressively pursued anti-merger activity - the imbecilic case against AT&T was prosecuted under President Carter - Mr. Reagan understood the virtue of allowing companies to exploit the synergies of mergers to gain efficiency and lower costs.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
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.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
