Quotes About Virtue

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

I love the idea of rectitude.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Temperance is love in training.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism's closest approximation to "virtue" is "tolerance.

You preachers of equality, the tyrant-mania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue.

telling people you're virtuous isn't a virtue, it's self-promotion. Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

The way that you set the world straight is by constraining the malevolence in your own heart. (From "Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege" on YouTube)

truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.

You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse.

human health is a matter of moral action, perhaps more than it is a matter of anything else

Success: that's the mystery. Virtue: that's what's inexplicable. To fail, you merely have to cultivate a few bad habits. You just have to bide your time. And once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished.

Happy" is by no means synonymous with "good.