Virtue Quotes
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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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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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
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I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.
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Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.
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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
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I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.
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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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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
