Virtue Quotes
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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.
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A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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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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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
