Quotes About Virtue

Mozi believed that a policy could be called virtuous only if it enriched the poor, prevented pointless death, and contributed to public order.

Not everyone is going to like you, son. And good people don't do good so that they'll win popularity contests. They do good because its the right thing to do.

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.

In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.

Illi unum consilium habent et virtutem et potestatem suam bestiae tradunt. Et ne quis possit emere aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem aut nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis ejus.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.