Virtue Quotes
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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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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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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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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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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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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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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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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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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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.
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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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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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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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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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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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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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
