Quotes About Virtue

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothin which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.

Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu'avez-vous fait jusqu'à présent pour la morale ? Diderot: (sans vergogne). Mais... j'ai offert mon exemple.

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. The "indignant" person has for once the satisfaction of despising and treating a creature as "inferior," coupled with the feeling of his own superiority and rightness.

The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the pursuit of self-interest, but in the deterioration of the meaning of self-interest; not in the fact that people are too much concerned with their self-interest, but that they are not concerned enough with the interest of their real self; not in the fact that they are too selfish, but that they do not love themselves.

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Reason is fallible and virtue invincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Humility pays.

Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.

La vertu devient morbide si elle n'est adoucie par quelques écarts, et la foi devient aisément cruelle si elle n'est atténuée par quelques doutes." (dans Léon l'Africain

Erdem, eÄŸer baz? kabahatlerle yumuÅŸat?lmazsa saÄŸl?ks?z, inanç kimi kuÅŸkularla gölgelenmezse ac?mas?z olur

Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.

The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.

I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue.

Most presidents place faith in action; the modern presidency is perpetual motion. Coolidge made virtue of inaction.