Quotes About Virtue

el sentido común es la más valiosa de las virtudes políticas.

Y es el sufrimiento del alma, sobre todo, el que hace buenos a los buenos

Una acción virtuosa, un gesto de desprendimiento, un acto solidario despiertan, dice, una sensación de belleza comparable a la que deparan un bello paisaje, una música armoniosa o una vida que transcurre dentro de la prudencia, el respeto del prójimo, la amistad y la conducta irreprochable.

You must base everything on these three rules: behave well, speak well, act well.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." And

Honor is a complex and important matter best served by doing the right thing.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.

It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?

Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible.

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Ser bom pode não ser agradável, 6655321. Pode ser horrível ser bom. E quando digo isto a você, eu compreendo como soa contraditório. Eu sei que vou passar muitas noites sem dormir por causa disto. O que é que Deus quer? Deus quer a bondade ou a escolha da bondade? O homem que escolhe o mal é talvez de uma certa forma melhor do que aquele a quem a bondade é imposta.

Iyi bir insan olmak çok da hoÅŸ olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunç olabilir. Bunu sana söylerken, kulaÄŸa ne kadar çeliÅŸkili geldiÄŸini biliyorum...Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi?

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want woodness (goodness) or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some ways better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?