Quotes About Virtue

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

Kindness is virtue itself.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.