Quotes About Virtue

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle

Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared by all living beings. What happens, however, when vitality is inverted, and instead of flourishing, one is driven to eat oneself alive?

Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.