Quotes About Virtue

La función del hombre sabio consiste, sobre todo, en deliberar rectamente… Y delibera rectamente, en el sentido más estricto de la palabra, quien apunta en sus cálculos hacia las más altas actividades abiertas del hombre. ARISTÓTELES, Ética de Nicómaco, VI

Qué se opone a la arrogancia/soberbia? La virtud de la humildad, la cual consiste en reconocerse a sí mismo tal como uno es, sin sobrevalorase ni despreciarse.

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Do not allow your clothing to attract attention. Seek not to please by the clothes you wear but by the life you live.

Swer guotes wibes liebe hat Der schamt sich ieder missetat.

seeing how small our affairs look in the larger scheme of things, the Stoic means to induce a felt sense of humility and attraction to virtue. The method can be called intuitive because it isn't a matter of argument. It's more a question of showing and pointing, and expecting perceptions and adjustments to follow directly from a new point of view.

socrates. Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same. Gorgias 526de

This was one of the unfortunate consequences of exaggerating the enemy's evil. You were obligated to exaggerate your own virtues as well. To counter the enemy's fiendish subversion, you wielded a blunt instrument of righteousness. And then you got a congressional committee of yahoos with subpoena power and God on their side...If only, Axel thought. If only they weren't so god damned dumb.

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

There are some causes sosacred as to carry with them an irresistible appeal to every virtuous bosom; and he needs but little power of eloquence, who defends the honour of his wife, his mother, or his country. I

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

Character is contagious.

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

If tolerance poses as a middle road between rejection on the one side and assimilation on the other, this road, as already suggested, is paved by necessity rather than virtue; tolerance, as Nietzsche would say, becomes a virtue only retroactively and retrospectively.

There's a fight going on inside of everyone between a good wolf and a bad wolf, but the one you feed is the one who wins

When you enforce virtue, you deny a woman's right to make an unacceptable choice with her own body. This conflict is old wine in new bottles; it is nothing less than the age-old battle between freedom and control.

A woman's sexual modesty puts her, significantly, in a position to be the ultimate worldly arbiter of a man's worth—"Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine," as the temperance movement's slogan had it. Since respect for her modesty gave her the freedom to withhold affection, so to speak, until a virtuous man came around, men were in turn inspired to become worthy of her. Whether the cause was liquor or

Aristotle is reputed to have said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Conscience cannot convince self-esteem of bad character.