Quotes About Virtue

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.