Virtue Quotes
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The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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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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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
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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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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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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.
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This is the Free Market Revolution: It is the idea that economic freedom can flourish only in an America that celebrates selfishness—the individual’s pursuit of his rational, long-term self-interest—as a virtue.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
