Virtue Quotes
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It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
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Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.
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Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.
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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
