Virtue Quotes

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

A gentleman is not a pot.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

This is pity, ” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

One is punished most for one’s virtues.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way