Quotes About Virtue

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I pray God to keep me from being proud.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!

Is it not strange, that Love borders so much upon Hate? But this wicked Love is not like the true virtuous Love, to be sure: That and Hatred must be as far off, as Light and Darkness. And how must this Hate have been increased, if he had met with a base Compliance, after his wicked Will had been gratify'd?

S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours waft from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds.

Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.

Si el demonio supiera amar, dejaría de ser malvado

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be

He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.

rikkaus ilman hyvettä on vaarallista; mutta molempien yhtymisestä seuraa korkein onni

A handsome man is good to look at, but a good man will be handsome as well.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor but by mixing both you are on the peak of joy.

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

A man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but a good man at once takes on beauty.

Wealth without virtue makes a dangerous neighbor, while their blend holds the pinnacle of happiness.