Virtue Quotes
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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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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
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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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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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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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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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Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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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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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
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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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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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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.
