Virtue Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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 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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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
