Quotes About Virtue

I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it.

pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

Benjamin Franklin

You may be more happy than princes if you will be more virtuous.

Thou shalt not receive any gift; for a gift bindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." (Exod. xxiii. 8.)

for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

I have always set a greater Value on the Character of a Doer of Good, than on any other kind of Reputation

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between "superior" and "inferior" to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

You never toot your own horn.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

I'm one of the most humble people you'll probably ever meet.

Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.