Virtue Quotes
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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
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Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
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I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.
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For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
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Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.
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Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.
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There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
