Quotes About Virtue

There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.

There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

It creates within America a virtuous Us and a demonized Them.

IT WOULD BE REALLY pretty easy to be virtuous, be that disciple of Jesus, if it weren't for one big problem. Those other people. Yeah. Them.

It is no grcat thing to livc long, nor cvcn to livc for cvcr; but it is a grcat thing to live well.

Righteousness" for Luke does not mean having the correct theology. Righteousness means behaving in a way marked by justice.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

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Eu não espero que os adversários da verdade confessem que se enganaram. Uma atitude como essa só é possível às almas mais elevadas.

L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Se Deus não existisse, tudo seria permitido'', diz um personagem de Dostoiévski. Não é verdade, porque, crente ou não, tu não se permite tudo: tudo, inclusive o pior, não seria digno de ti! (...) Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

Le secret du bonheur, écrit-il, est avant tout dans le courage, dans la force où consiste la vertu. L'énergie est la vie de l'âme comme le principal essor de la raison. L'homme fort est bon. Le faible seul est méchant. Le père dit à son fils : « Sois homme, mais sois-le vraiment. »

I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.