Virtue Quotes
-
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
-
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
-
Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
-
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
-
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
-
I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
-
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
-
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
-
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
-
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
-
Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
-
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
-
Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
-
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
-
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
-
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
-
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
-
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
-
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
-
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
-
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
-
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity
-
Virtue is no empty echo.
