Virtue Quotes
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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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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When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
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A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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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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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
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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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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
