Quotes About Virtue

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

The superior man limits his achievements.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.