Virtue Quotes
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
Happiness is the reward of virtue.
Aristotle
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Aristotle
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
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.
Aristotle
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
Bill Vaughan
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
Aristotle
