Quotes About Virtue

But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love.

Watch out! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. —Matthew 6:1

If you are wise . . . prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. —James 3:13

Do good—even in little things. God sees them all. — Jerry Hamilton —

Keep yourself completely above reproach; avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing (see 1 Thessalonians 5:22, KJV).

Will Durant once said, "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. —1 John 3:7

Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't.

Il ne m'a manqué que d'être aimé pour être bon!

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

And you, I think, are a good man of the kind who does not know himself to be one—some say that is the only kind.

I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones. He smiled at that. You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die.

When that Aprille with his shoures sote. The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertue engendred is the flour.

if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.

la virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia.

High in moral virtue was his speech, and gladly would he learn and gladly teach.

for that which goes beyond moderation is folly and Sin.

Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!

For Solomon says that, 'He who is not patient shall meet with great harm.

la nobleza no depende de las posesiones, ya que la gente no siempre se ajusta al modelo

And, therefore, Saint Jerome says, 'Do some good deeds, so that the Devil, who is our enemy, will not find you unoccupied

For, inasmuch as the good works that men do while they live the virtuous life be slain by the Sin following, and also since all the good works that men do while they be in deadly Sin are utterly dead as for to have the life everlasting, well may the man who does no good works sing that new French song, "I have wasted all my time and my labor.

Another Sin of Lechery is to bereave a Maiden of her maidenhead, for he who does so, certainly, casts a Maiden out of the highest degree that exists in this present life, and deprives her of that precious fruit that the Book calls the "Hundred Fruits." I can not say it in any other way in English, but in Latin it is called Centesimus fructus.

Lo, what says Saint Augustine: "There is nothing so like the Devil's child as he who oft chides others." Saint Paul also says, "It behooves the servant of God not to chide.