Quotes About Virtue

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Love can wait to give. Lust can't wait to get.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.

The round of a passionate man?s life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

Good things happen to good people.

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina's native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that "the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

Character is most determined by integrity and courage.