Quotes About Virtue

To retrieve the ill consequences of a foolish conduct, and by struggling manfully with distress to subdue it, is one of the noblest efforts of wisdom and virtue. Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, is guilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us

I could only get on at all by taking nature into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.

since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

Ada tiga hal penting dalam hidup ini. Pertama adalah kebaikan hati. Kedua, kebaikan hati. Ketiga, kebaikan hati juga.

Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.

It would have been impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence.

galantuomo—'and no mistake.' There

She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!

And while it's all very nice to know that a woman has a mind, literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed. Germaine had the right idea: she was ignorant and lusty, she put her heart and soul into her work. She was a whore all the way through—and that was her virtue!

The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love. He who loveth mean and sordid things doth thereby become base and vile, but a noble and well-placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.

Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

Be strong! Be good! Be pure! The right only shall endure; And all things else are but false pretenses.

When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.

The honour of old age comes not from length of days, is not measured by number of years; 9 understanding – this is grey hairs, a blameless life – this is ripe old age.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Down South we've always believed that if a man had intellectual abilities, they would show through on their own without his having to brag about them.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Now, Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.