Virtue Quotes
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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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Virtue proceeds through effort.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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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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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
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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.
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There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
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The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
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The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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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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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
