Quotes About Virtue

For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Mucha gente hay que hace un bien sólo si de él recoge beneficio, no por amor y respeto a lo que es justo.

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.

In Montaigne's redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one's mind after a meal, get bored with books, know none of the ancient philosophers and mistake Scipios. A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

the saddest of fates - to be good and yet judged evil

Uniting the many challenges to the commercial meritocratic ideal is a threefold plea, that we cease investing with moral connotations something as apparently haphazardly distributed as money; that we sever the doctrinaire connections routinely made between wealth and virtue; and that before we begin measuring our peers, we at least attempt to ensure that the taller ones have taken off their stilts, and that the shorter ones are not standing in a ditch.

Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition. William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)

Today's ideology masquerades as pragmatism with that pragmatism reduced to the simplistic assumption that the basis of human nature is self-interest, a view which discount philanthropy, discredits altruism, with the only motive deserving of trust self-promotion and self-advancement. This so-called pragmatism is wicked and it is doubly so because it is held up as being both realistic and a virtue. Whereas it is shallow, shabby and all too often callous.

There is no such thing as a necessary evil.

La humildad es una virtud. La humillación, no. Ser humilde significa permitir que Dios aporte más vida al mundo a través de ti, en vez de ser un peón en la búsqueda de sangre del ego. Dios promueve tu bienestar y hace todo lo posible para promoverlo.

Virtue loses its majesty when it morphs to dogma.

One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

We cannot understand the Higher Wisdom. Later, well after the event, we may see the lesson contained in the event, and be truly grateful. We must, however, submit to what happens, accepting all that unfolds gracefully. This is the key. All your tragedies in life and in the theatre come about because of non-acceptance of the will of the Gods. Not my petty little ant-like will, but the Gods omnipotent will, let that will be done, I say. This is the beginning and end of the virtuous life.

I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore...that virtuous persons have no need to woo; that villains screw, then studiously ignore.

We're saints and sinners both, the lot of us, or else there's no saints and no sinners.

Aristotle also felt strongly that virtue requires action; mere noble intentions are not enough.

humility is the true measure of wisdom.

but where does this nobility come from? Generosity or fear? Wisdom or ignorance?

To live in dharma is to act in love. To