Quotes About Virtue

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?

What's more, we are born women. It mat be we're unqualified for deeds of virtue: yet as the architects of every kind of mischief, we are supremely skilled.

There is nothing worse than a bad woman, and nothing better in any way than a good one.

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.

But I know their disposition and nature; they will rather die; for among virtuous men, disgrace is considered before life.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

yá'ádaat'éhígíí bee hajiidziihgo 'ál'??. A person should only speak words that are good. Saad

He delighted in writing, in the joinery and embellishment of his sentences, in the consciousness of high rare virtue when every word had been used in its purest and most precise sense, in the kitten games of syntax and rhetoric. Words could do anything except generate their own meaning.

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth

Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...

We all must try to be good.

You are mysterious. I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Svatko o sebi misli da posjeduje barem jednu od osnovnih ljudskih vrlina, a ovo je moja: ubrajam se me?u malo poštenih ljudi koje sam upoznao u životu.

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

Chacun se flatte de posséder en propre l'une au moins des vertus cardinales. Voici la mienne: je suis l'un des très rares hommes foncièrement honnêtes que je connaisse.

Cada persona sospecha que cuenta por lo menos con una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta es la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que he conocido.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Ciascuno di noi si suppone dotato di almeno una delle virtù cardinali, e questa è la mia: sono una delle poche persone oneste che abbia mai conosciuto

Iga inimene kipub enda juures nägema vähemasti üht suurt voorust, nii ka mina: ma olen aus inimene, üks vähestest, keda tunnen.