Virtue Quotes
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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Like so many of the bits of conversation I recall, the meanings hidden in childhood only become clear now that I write them down. Most were just small lessons, people trying to prove their virtue to each other, but because I wasn't supposed to be listening, I made things out to be more important than they were. Maybe that's why our childhoods seem so big, so resonant, while our adult years slip by like fish in the river Byk.
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Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
