Quotes About Virtue

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter...

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus. translation (non-literal): O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors. — Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography

nothing was useful which was not honest.

Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...

For want of modesty is want of sense.

Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.