Quotes About Virtue

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Only those live who do good.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

Patience! It was the least of my virtues.

Never be proud of doing the right thing;

you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing." To

He also embraced a cyclical theory of history. History, he believed, flowed in cycles. Infant nations were virtuous and uncorrupted, but with age they grew tainted, eventually falling into decline and succumbing to their encumbering maladies and vices.