Quotes About Virtue

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

Where there is no truth there is no grace.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?