Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

“Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“There are good points about all such wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)