Quotes About Virtue

We cannot do wrong and feel right, nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, for justice avenges each slight.

You don't want modesty," Maya Angelou once said. "You want humility. Humility

Virtue was ever double-edged.

My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.

The best of men are just men at best.

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world.

He would have made an excellent politician or statesman but had unfortunately been cursed from birth with an unshakable incorruptibility and moral integrity. The

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Honesty compels serious men, on examination of their consciences, to admit that the old faith is no longer compelling. It is the very peak of Christian virtue that demands the sacrifice of Christianity.

According to Machiavelli, love of virtue is only an imagination, a kind of perversion of desire effected by societys (i.e., others) demands on us.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

3. Toda a moral de Jesus se resume na caridade e na humildade, isto é, nas duas virtudes contrárias ao egoísmo e ao orgulho.

Los que hacen bien con ostentación han recibido ya la recompensa"; en efecto, el que busca su glorificación en la tierra por el bien que ha hecho, él mismo se ha pagado; Dios ya no le debe nada; sólo le falta recibir el castigo de su orgullo.

la pobreza es para los unos la prueba de la paciencia y de la resignación, y la riqueza es para los otros la prueba de la caridad y de la abnegación.

Quando uma coisa é má, não há elogio que a torne boa.

La caridad es la virtud fundamental que debe sostener todo el edificio de las virtudes terrestres; sin ellas, las otras no existen. Sin la caridad no hay esperanza en una vida mejor, no hay interés moral que nos guíe; sin caridad no hay fe, porque la fe sólo es un rayo puro que hace brillar a un alma caritativa.

Hombres de bien, de buena y grande voluntad, uníos para continuar la grande obra de propagación de la caridad: vosotros hallaréis la recompensa de esta virtud en su mismo ejercicio: proporciona todos los goces espirituales desde la vida presente. Uníos, amáos unos a otros según los preceptos de Cristo. Amén. (San Vicente de Paul. París, 1858.)

virtude da vossa geração é a atividade intelectual; seu vício é a indiferença moral.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

Honor is overrated.

Quienes hablan de la riqueza espiritual de los ascetas merecerían sufrir anorexia. No hay mejor escuela de materialismo puro y duro que el ayuno prolongado. Más allá de determinado límite, lo que entendemos por alma se marchita hasta desaparecer. (...) Sería un erro ver en la anorexia una inteligencia propia. Sería bueno que esa evidencia fuera finalmente asumida: la ascesis no enriquece el espíritu. Las privaciones carecen de virtud.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.