Virtue Quotes
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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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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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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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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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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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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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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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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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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
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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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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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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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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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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 the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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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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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
