Quotes About Virtue

What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?

O primeiro pecado da humanidade foi a fé; a primeira virtude foi a dúvida.

God, let me remember all good losers.

We sometimes think of life as a conflict between the head and the heart, but in such a situation there is no unity of the human being, but only truces, compromises, and temporary victories of parties with divergent interests. The virtuous soul, on the contrary, blends all its parts in the act of choice.

Honesty is never wrong.

Goodness in the form of innocence can render you a pray to others. In a predatory world , it is not always easy to distinguish virtue from guillibility. This is one reason why there is something quaint as well as imposing about the word 'virtue'.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue.

Such beliefs were born in man's willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who always represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler

price. There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

If that's what bein' bad does to you, Nanny thought, I could of done with some of that years ago. The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

We don't inherit our parents' sins. Or their virtues.

You cannot have both. Riches and purity do not match. Humility hates pride." He paced in a circle. "You have been warned.

Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.

Whoever moves from carelessness to vigilance, whoever overcomes his unwholesome deeds with wholesome actions, lights up the world, like the moon that merges from a cloud.

Giving up wrong deeds, exercise right action. Giving up wrong speech, exercise right speech. Giving up wrong thoughts, think good thoughts.

The virtuous mind themselves.

The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.