Virtue Quotes
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.
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.
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.
I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
