Virtue Quotes
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Return animosity with virtue.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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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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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
