Quotes About Virtue

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

She invites us to smile at the quirks of human nature, not at simple virtue.

When you are trying to live the life of the Spirit, you will try to be pure. You do well, but why? In order that you may be pure, and leave your impure brethren in their impurity? Oh no! You must try to be pure, in order that there may be more purity in the world to share amongst all men.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

I'm a proper man.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

The good and wise lead quite lives

To generous souls every task is noble.

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue