Virtue Quotes
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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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.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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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.
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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.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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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.
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The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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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.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Virtue is no empty echo.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
