Quotes About Virtue

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. —Aristotle

El poder tiene más relación con lo divino que con el mundo natural. Y la paciencia es la virtud suprema de los dioses, que disponen de todo el tiempo del mundo.

Quien pretende ser bueno en todo momento, está destinado a la perdición en medio del enorme número de quienes no lo son".

Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look weak. It is a principal impediment to power.

These types, for example, will often display their weakness and lack of power as a kind of moral virtue. But true powerlessness, without any motive of self-interest, would not publicize its weakness to gain sympathy or respect. Making a show of one's weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power

An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.

ma a Roma un uomo onesto era un uomo raro: cioè un cretino.

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong, Your Eminence. The consequences may not turn out as we intend; it may prove in time that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong. The only guide to a person's actions can ever be their conscience, for it is in our conscience that we most clearly hear the voice of God.

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez

Cato was always the perfect Stoic, as long as nothing went wrong.

that virtue is sufficient for happiness, that nothing except virtue is good, and that the emotions are not to be trusted—

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Patience is a virtue that must be learned, but we must all be ready for the change of an instant.

That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.

Impatience was a vice when beginning a journey of unknown length.

Oh, very well. The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

Kesabaran adalah kebajikan yang harus dipelajari, tetapi kita semua harus siap untuk perubahan secepat apapun - Sheriam

La Rueda teje según sus designios y en su momento. La paciencia es una virtud que debe aprenderse, pero todos debemos estar dispuestos a aceptar el cambio en un instante.

the positive Warrior energy destroys only what needs to be destroyed in order for something new and fresh, more alive and more virtuous to appear.

Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every

Das Unmoralische gewinnt sein himmlisches Recht als eine drastische Kritik des Moralischen!

The freedom we must defend is freedom for the practice of these virtues. It is freedom for excellence, the freedom that enables us to master ourselves. It is a freedom that, far from being negated by rigorous standards of scholarship, demands them. It is not the freedom of "if it feels good, do it"; it is, rather, the freedom of self-transcendence, the freedom from slavery to self.

Smith's doctrine of self-interest did more than just turn avarice into a virtue; it turned classical virtue into a vice.