Virtue Quotes

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch, De Remedies

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Ursula Le Guin

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.

Confucius

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Cicero