Quotes About Virtue

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

Knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Before honor is humility.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

Goodness sold itself, badness flaunted itself about.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

You know, a good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you're doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you're good.

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

It was not," says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, "very easy to be good then.

Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.

To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.

Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It

Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;

Justice is only what a "culture," meaning a shifting majority of people, say it is, with a dollop of respect for "human rights" spread on top, without intellectual foundation, and without any connection with virtue and duty.

The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.

From his childhood on he had had an obstinate nature and his name became a byword for virtue and truthfulness. "That's incredible, even if Cato says so," was a common expression.

Supreme Good and Evil (De finibus)

Cicero's central concern is the contradiction between virtue and the inevitable expediencies that divert human agents from the path of right conduct.