<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Virtue - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60812]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assume a virtue if you have it not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assume a virtue if you have it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a sure anchor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a sure anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue in most request is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue in most request is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60784]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60784</guid></item></channel></rss>