Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
VIRTUES, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
There are good points about all. . . wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc. , are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.
After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!
In justice is all virtues found in sum.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.