Quotes About Virtue

The trouble with this, in MacIntyre's opinion, was that all the insistence on the primacy of reason and of "rational debate" had ever achieved was to have erased from men's minds what, since Aristotle, had been the main support for their entire moral, intellectual, and political lives: the concept of virtue. And it had given them nothing in return. Their intellectual "light" was, in fact, nothing other than moral darkness.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

difícilmente los tontos son del todo buenos. Y lo peor es que los inteligentes difícilmente lo quieren ser».

el que se ocupa demasiado en hacer el bien, no tiene tiempo de ser bueno».

Chrysippus' questions might be useful. He asked: 'Is there good or bad at hand? Is it appropriate to react?' This could be supplemented with a few more, producing a kind of Chrysippan flowchart:

On the question of speaking, Stoics and Buddhists are at one. In Epictetus' words: 'Be mostly silent, or speak merely when necessary, and in few words. We may enter sparingly into conversation sometimes, when the occasion calls for it; but not about any of the common subjects, such as gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or food, or drink – the vulgar topics of conversation; and especially not about individuals, either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons.

Where Epictetus advised testing the value of things by asking whether they are in our power, Chrysippus recommended the following two questions: Is there good or bad at hand? Is it appropriate to react? For a Stoic, the answer to the first question would be yes only if it refers to our virtue. Otherwise it would always be no, because nothing external to us is truly good or bad. It follows that the answer to the second question would also be no, it is not appropriate to react.

Seneca says: 'if we are situated in the midst of a noisy city, let there be a preceptor at our side to contradict those who laud vast incomes and to praise instead the man who is wealthy on little and who measures wealth by how it is used.

The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother.

What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.

It is also true that the separate brain units, by virtue of where they are placed in a system, contribute different components to the system's operation and are thus not interchangeable.

El fracaso, el desasosiego, los pesares derivados de la falta de virtud, las verdaderas enfermedades, la herida del tiempo y toda suerte de agravios sociales y personales riegan con su amargura la vida. Basta que esa amargura rebase ciertos límites para caer en la dependencia de algún placer ambivalente, muchas veces de raíz masoquista, que ayuda a seguir viviendo cuando falta la decisión necesaria para el suicidio, y falta también la alegría de existir.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely.

A media can make a person of a ZERO virtuous quality to be a HERO figure personality overnight.

A person is only as wise as he or she is nice only to the kind-hearted people.

A person who likes or loves to laugh over lunch or dinner with the sinner can't be winner ever but loser eventually in life.

A wise is never clever but only nice to the gentleman.

Hypocrite advocates about Simplicity, Humanity, Almighty, Meditation Beauty etc and adds he believes that the beauty lies in soul, not face but ensures to place own photo in everything that he says about life's virtuous quality via thoughts poster to gain praise for oneself only in reality.

People can only be categorized into a good or bad person but not the human because being human is in itself a very coveted position which is not often possible to achieve by any individual.

People engaged in foul activity only need to change ,but not a person who has human quality.