Virtue Quotes
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
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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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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
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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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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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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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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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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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Virtue is no empty echo.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
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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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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
