Quotes About Virtue

Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores."

And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never serve to give him satisfaction (a young many shy and modest in his acts and thoughts) once he'd become her slave and vassal; she made so deep a mark upon his heart, that he must emulate her... "Again, and this is what I'll finish with, I gave him wings to fly beyond the skies by means of mortal things, which make a ladder to our Maker, rightly used...

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue 'gainst fury shall advance the fight, and it to the combat soon shall put to flight, for the Old Roman Valor is not dead! Nor in the Italian's breasts, extinguish-ed.

Bu f?rsat? sana bah?etti?inden dolay? Allaha ?ükret. Günah i?lemek vesilesi, nadiren elimize geçer, en faziletkar adamlar?n bile hayatta beklediledikleri ?ey bu f?rsatt?r. Bana günahs?z bir zevk gösteremezsin. Manevilerini bir tarafa at.

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

As your affection for me can only proceed from your experience and conviction of my fondness for you (for to talk of natural affection is talking nonsense), the only return I desire is, what it is chiefly your interest to make me; I mean your invariable practice of virtue, and your indefatigable pursuit of knowledge. Adieu! and be persuaded that I shall love you extremely, while you deserve it; but not one moment longer.

COMPETED WITH YOU, MY DEAR, IN DEVOTION, VIRTUE, FRUGALITY, AND LOVE—BUT I ALWAYS LOST. I WISH EVERYONE THE SAME FATE.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

Mengzi responded, "If Your Majesty regards them as excellent, then why do you not put them into practice?" The King said, "We have a weakness. We are fond of wealth.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

Much better stay in company! To love you must have someone else, Giving requires a legatee, Good neighbours need whole parishfuls Of folk to do it on - in short, Our virtues are all social; if, Deprived of solitude, you chafe, It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Nietzsche held that the strong had a duty towards the less fortunate: 'The man of virtue, too, helps the unfortunate, but not, or almost not, out of pity, but prompted by an urge which is begotten by the excess of power'.

Epicurus also taught that wisdom was the greatest virtue, for through it we could learn which pleasures to seek and which to avoid. Moreover, he professed that no one could be completely happy unless they lived a virtuous life, not because virtue was good in itself, but because it led to pleasurable consequences and the absence of pain and fear.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

Instead of extinguishing in the heart of men the essential and natural love for themselves, morality should use it to show them the interest in being good, human, sociable, and trustworthy: far from wanting to destroy the passions inherent in his nature, morality will lead him to virtue, without which no man on earth can ever enjoy true happiness.

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.