Quotes About Virtue

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

No bad man can be a good poet.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.