Andre Gide Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

  Andre Gide

  Faith, Mean, Use

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.196, Vintage

• I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

  Andre Gide

  Vices, Virtue, Good Enough

• So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Becoming, Virtue

• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

  Andre Gide

  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

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