Quotes About Virtue

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

The memory of a good deed lives.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

By the deeds know a man.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

People are so proud of their wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it?

Sesuatu yang baik tak pernah terlalu banyak, ketahuilah itu.

If all men were just, there would be no need of valor.

No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues

We cannot simply allow the treacherous few determine the fates of themany. At such times, the virtuous should be held to equalaccountability of the vile for their inactions

Se ognuno di noi imparasse dalle lezioni della vita il cuore morbido del proprio credo. Se ognuno di noi diventasse un virtuoso dell'amore all'interno della sua religione. E poi, avendo imparato bene la sua religione, se andasse oltre a imparare a suonare come i membri di un'orchestra, in armonia con altre religioni. (p 172)

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Notre stoïcien a dix fois raison : Supprime le jugement, tu supprimes le mal

Love is necessary to satisfy the mind, ethics to satisfy the conscience, and spiritual seeking for peace of soul. Without food and clothes, the body becomes thin and weak. Without eroticism, the mind becomes restless and unsatisfied. Without virtue (ethics), the conscience goes astray. Without spirituality, the soul is degraded.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.