Quotes About Virtue

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.