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| Att fordra dygden av en ung man och förneka honom alla nöjen är detsamma som att begära frukt av ett träd sedan man bortskakat dess blomster. | Johan Henrik Kellgren (1751-1795) |
| Att två människor skulle leva tillsammans i 25 år utan en enda allvarlig dispyt tyder på en menlöshet som inte kan räknas som en dygd annat än hos får. | Sir Alan P. Herbert (1890-1971) |
| Bara en dygdig människa kan älska och hata människor. | Ordspråk från Kina |
| Det finns få dygdiga kvinnor som inte är trötta på att vara det. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Dygd kommer inte ur rikedom, utan... rikedom, och alla goda ting människan har... kommer ur dygden. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Dygd kräver vissa gränser. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Dygd är bättre än skönhet. | Ordspråk från Sverige |
| Dygd är inte ärftligt. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Dygd är kanske ingenting mer än själens artighet. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Dygden blir aldrig gammal. | Ordspråk från Norge |
| Dygden börjar få övertaget först när magen blir svag. | Holger Drachmann (1846-1908) |
| Dygden har många predikanter men få martyrer. | Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) |
| Dygden skulle inte gå så långt om inte fåfängan höll den sällskap. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Dygden vördar man, odygden älskar man. | Ordspråk från Tyskland |
| Dygden överlever döden. | Latinskt ordspråk |
| Dygdens enda belöning är dygden; enda sättet att få en vän är att vara en. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Dygderna uppslukas av egoism som floderna uppslukas av havet. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Dygdiga människor skrämmer mig. Dygden straffar ju sig själv. | Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) |
| En kvinna kan försvara sin dygd mot män mycket lättare än hon kan skydda sitt rykte mot kvinnor. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| En kvinna skulle nog behöva rätt mycket fantasi för att älska en man för hans dygd. | George Christoph Lichtenberg |
| För många betyder dygd snarare att ångra sina felsteg än att undvika dem. | George Christoph Lichtenberg |
| Kvinnans dygd är mannens främsta uppfinning. | Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979) |
| Kvinnans dygd är mannens största uppfinning. | Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979) |
| Kvinnlig dygd är ingenting annat än en bekväm manlig uppfinning. | Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) |
| Lasten smyger sig in i vårt hjärta i dygdens förklädnad. | Latinskt ordspråk |
| Lasten vet att hon är ful; därför förklär hon sig. | Ordspråk från England |
| Man gör ständigt en dygd av en nödvändighet. | Ordspråk från Danmark |
| Mannen fordrar dygd av kvinnan, men gör allt för att uppmuntra hennes fel. | Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) |
| När en kvinna väl uppgivit sin dygd nekar hon sig ingenting. | Tacitus (55-116) |
| Själv röker jag inte, men jag tar då och då en cigarrett bara för att inte bli slav under dygden. | Red Top (1915-) |
| Sparsamhet är en dygd, men den bör utövas av förfäder. | Falukuriren |
| Stora mäns laster skattas ofta som dygder. | Ordspråk från Kanada |
| Tystnad är dårars dygd. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Uppfostran är människornas försök att på pedagogisk väg bibringa sina barn de dygder som de inte har kunnat skänka dem på genetisk. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| Uppmuntra dygden i varje hjärta där den tvingats gömma sig i hemlighet och sorg av världens skam och ondska. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| Utan frestelse ingen dygd. | Ordspråk från Sverige |
| Vad som är last idag kan vara dygd i morgon. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| En kvinde kan forsvare sin dyd over for mænd meget lettere, end hun kan beskytte sit rygte over for kvinder. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Sand dyd er til. Dog kun som hypotese. | Hans Hartvig Seedorff |
| En erhvervet dyd er lige så beregnende som en last. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| En snæversynet menneskes sind er som øjets pupil: jo mere lys, du udsætter den for, jo mere trækker den sig sammen. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Selvfornægtelse er en sjælden dyd, som gode mænd prædiker, og gode kvinder praktiserer. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Intet er mere ubehageligt end en dydig person med en ond sjæl. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Forsigtigheden er en rig, gammel jomfru som opvartes af udueligheden. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. | Bill Davidsen |
| I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it | Charles II (1630-1685) |
| The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle | Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) |
| Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it | Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) |
| Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice-only the willingness to make it when necessary. | Frederick Dunn |
| A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue | John Randolph (1915-2004) |
| The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. | John Vanbrugh, Sr. |
| Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. | Joseph Hall (1574-1656) |
| The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris | Larry Wall |
| Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers. | Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849) |
| Each must in virtue strive for to excel ; That man lives twice that lives the first life well | Robert Herrick (1868-) |
| If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell. | Siddha Nagarjuna |
| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. | Sidney Lanier |
| Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. | Silius Italicus |
| Persevere in virtue and diligence. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| For policies, industries, strong towns, and fortifications, it is the mirror of virtue and the garden of Mars; yea, and the light of all Europe, that he who hath exactly trod it may say he hath seen the map of the whole universe | William Lithgow (1934-) |
| Virtue is its own punishment | Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) |
| Virtue has need of limits | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. | Charles Horton Cooley |
| All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. | Eduardo Chillida |
| The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster | Rebecca West (1892-1983) |
| Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. | St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) |
| All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. | Theodore Hesburgh (1917-) |
| Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence | The Talmud |
| He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community | Arthur Dobrin |
| Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet | Sidney Lanier |
| Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. | Sidney Lanier |
| But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Chastity - you can carry it too far | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. | Adam Smith (1723-1790) |
| The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. | Arabian Proverb |
| Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Virtue never dwells alone; it always has neighbors | Chinese Proverbs |
| Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. | Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) |
| The problem in this case was you just can’t be a middle-aged virgin in America without something be wrong with you. People can’t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can’t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you’re stronger, it’s so much easier to imagine you’re weaker. You’re addicted to self-abuse. You’re a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. | Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994) |
| Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it | Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) |
| Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Virtue is like a rich stone, - best plain set. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Virtue is insufficient temptation. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. | Gordon B. Hinckley (1910-) |
| I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| Virtue is not knowing but doing | Japanese Proverb |
| The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm - Shall in the happy trial prove most glory | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. | John Webster (1580-1632) |
| It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| The resistance of a woman to a man’s advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes it’s just a sign of experience. | Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) |
| The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Virtue is its own reward | Proverb |
| The only reward of virtue is virtue | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| "I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion. | Robert G. Menzies |
| We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn’t get in our way. | Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) |
| No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Virtue is too often merely local. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Virtue is the only true nobility. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. | William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) |
| Assume a virtue if you have it not. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Angiveriet er den viktigste av våre nye dyder. | Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau |
| Man kan gjøre en dyd av nødvendighet. | Spansk Ordtak |