Quotes About Virtue

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...

Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

There are three values: Feel good, be good and do good.