Virtue Quotes
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.William Hazlitt
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.Francis Bacon
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue - - They hate the lonesome ones.Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man.Saskya Pandita
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.Charles Horton Cooley
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.Pope Gregory The Great
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington
Virtue does not come from wealth, but... wealth, and every other good thing which men have... comes from virtue.Socrates
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Oscar Wilde
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.Francis Quarles
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.Voltaire
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.Confucius
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.William Coope
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.Joseph Smith Jr.
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
