Virtue Quotes
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
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
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despai
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.- - Aristotle
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates
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
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far - Seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
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
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.Joseph Addison
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.Voltaire
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.The Hitopadesa
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
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.Sallust
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.Theodore Roosevelt
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.La Bruyere
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.Aristotle
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.William Paley
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.Seneca
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.Churchill
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
Silence is the virtue of fools.Sir Francis Bacon
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.Cicero
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
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
