Quotes About Virtue

in which the muse of epic poetry, Calliope, appears to him and gives him some advice: Meantime the paths which you from earliest days did seek, Yes, and when Consul too, as mood and virtue called, These hold, and foster still your fame and good men's praise.

As Cicero drily put it: "We must apply to our fellow-countrymen for virtue, but for our culture to the Greeks.

virtue outweighs everything and even if the good man is not supremely happy, he is on balance happy.

was "to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

We should be living a life of purity.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

I never made a fortune by defrauding others.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

Oh, child,' the Father exclaimed, 'whether it's St Martha or that Mary that made the bitter choice, not one of them ever looked more virtuous than you. Why aren't ye born to be a good man's help-meet?

Oh, when you get down to the licklog, just to be a good friend. To be consequent to those around me. I guess I can't see any virtue higher than that.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.