Virtue Quotes
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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.
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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
