Quotes About Virtue

Un buen corazón te ayudará a tener una cara hermosa

A good heart will help you to a bonny face

People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.

But he was too good to be thoroughly unhappy long.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,' I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

know so well that human nature is human nature everywhere, whether under tile or thatch, and that in every specimen of human nature that breathes, vice and virtue are ever found blended, in smaller or greater proportions, and that the proportion is not determined by station. I have seen villains who were rich, and I have seen villains who were poor, and I have seen villains who were neither rich nor poor

Renunciation--is a piercing Virtue-- The letting go A Presence--for an Expectation

But he was a golden child, too good for the world.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong

Bad people very often do one good thing.

be as good as gold.

I often think that an individual's character can be judged by what he considers worthy of celebration.

Mooi schot.'... Artemis stak haar de munt toe. 'Nee,' zei Holly. 'Hou hem maar. Om je te helpen herinneren... dat er diep onder die lagen onbetrouwbaarheid toch nog een vonkje fatsoen is.

No es razonar con coherencia decir: «Soy más rico que tú, por lo tanto soy mejor que tú; soy más brillante que tú, entonces soy superior a ti». Para razonar más coherentemente es preciso decir: «Soy más rico que tú, pues mis bienes son mayores que los tuyos; soy más brillante que tú, pues mis discursos tienen mayor valor que los tuyos». Ya que tú no eres, ciertamente, ni riqueza, ni elocuación.

Un signo cierto de un espíritu incapaz es el de ocuparse mucho tiempo en el cuidado del cuerpo, así mismo como en el ejercicio, la bebida, el comer y en otras necesidades corporales. Estas cosas no deben ser lo principal, sino lo accesorio de nuestra vida.

Manual para una vida feliz

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.