Virtue Quotes
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
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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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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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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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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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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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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
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Virtue proceeds through effort.
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Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.
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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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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial 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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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
