Quotes About Virtue

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

The best of men are men at best

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.