Quotes About Virtue

Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.