Virtue Quotes
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
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Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
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Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
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The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
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The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.
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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.
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Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
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Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.
