Quotes About Virtue

The beauty of face and body attracts only the eyes; however, the beauty of the character and talk, perfumes heart, mind, and soul; it is the essential point of one's life.

The decent people are famous and known with their virtual decency, but not their shape or the dress.

The malodorous of mouth, is only uncomfortable, to a listener; however, the malodorous of character, causes inconvenient way for entire surroundings.

The neutral and honest person applies a rule, not a tool; otherwise, it proves such a person as unfair and a fool.

There is no greater strength than Patience and Gratitude. There is no one greater than a Patient and a Gratitude human.

Instead of wanting to be like this or that, make yourself into a silent, immovable giant. That's what the mountain is. Don't waste your time trying to impress people. If you become the sort of man people can respect, they'll respect you, without your doing anything.

En vez de querer ser esto o aquello, conviértete en un gigante silencioso e inamovible. así es la montaña. No pierdas el tiempo tratando de impresionar a la gente. Si te conviertes en la clase de hombre a quien la gente puede respetar, te respetarán sin que hagas nada.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

You possess one piece of the "good." It would only be arrogance to think any of us should have it all.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

So much fuss about the greatness of this one and that one, but what virtue is there in being born with certain qualities, it's like admiring the bingo basket when you shake it and good numbers come out

Ernest's mistake is to succeed by prudently respecting the rules of an old, well-known game; Gertrude's virtue is to succeed by sticking to the old, well-known game but in order to disrupt it and bend it to her purposes.

curiosity is the greatest virtue, just as wisdom is the goal of every desire.

I stand with Livy, who at the final hardening of Rome's republican arteries, wrote that the study of his land's history was the study of the rise and fall of moral strength, with duty and severity giving way to ambition, avarice, and license, till his fellow Romans "sank lower and lower, and finally began the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Every single pagan philosopher of the ancient world said that if you wanted to be free, you had to learn the hard ways of virtue and that the worst form of slavery was slavery to your own appetites.

The good man," says Plato, "is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

stand with Livy, who at the final hardening of Rome's republican arteries, wrote that the study of his land's history was the study of the rise and fall of moral strength, with duty and severity giving way to ambition, avarice, and license, till his fellow Romans "sank lower and lower, and finally began the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

We should be carefree with our bodies and prudish with our brains, not the contrary. How virtuous we are with our flesh, and yet the first foul thought that comes our way is invited to the depths of our soul.

Atheists believe simplicity is a virtue when it is precisely this that weighs so heavily on their souls.

One can define this virtue," he wrote, "as love of the laws and of the homeland [patrie].