Virtue Quotes
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss...
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Virtue lies in the middle ground.
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.