Quotes About Virtue

I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy

And the more he treated her as though she were really very nice, the more Lotty expanded and became really very nice, and the more he, affected in his turn, became really very nice himself; so that they went round and round, not in a vicious but in a highly virtuous circle.

for there must be, he reflected, a good deal more in her than he had supposed, for Lady Caroline to have become so intimate with her and so affectionate. And the more he treated her as though she were really very nice, the more Lotty expanded and became really very nice, and the more he, affected in his turn, became really very nice himself; so that they went round and round, not in a vicious but in a highly virtuous circle.

Thank God I didn't make the mistake of suggesting it to him, thought Cadfael devoutly. There's nothing the young hate and resent so much as to be urged to a good act, when they've already made the virtuous resolve on their own account.

God does indeed forbid," said Radulfus drily, "that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame. For

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost completely expurgated of idiots.

'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Change in a triceThe lilies and languors of virtueFor the raptures and roses of vice.

Envy destroys good deeds

Jealousy is the cause of erosion of good deeds, as well as the attracter of chastisement.

Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.

A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

When a community is composed of honest, sober and virtuous people, your forming a bad opinion about anyone of its members, when nothing wicked has been seen of him, is a great injustice to him. On the contrary in a corrupt society to form good opinion of anyone of them and to trust him is to harm yourself.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Whoever warns you against sins and vices is like the one who gives you good tidings.

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.