Virtue Quotes
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
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The real comfort was to have one's sins and weaknesses not explained away but understood and shared. John's identification of himself with Michael in so much was what he needed. He found strength in it... It struck him that it can be as much by our weakness as by our virtue that we can serve each other.
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.
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He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.
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The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."
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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
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Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
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The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
