Quotes About Virtue

Baz?lar? der ki iyinin a??r?s? olmaz çünkü a??r? oldu mu zaten iyi deÄŸil demektir. Ä°nsan?n gözü karanl?kta da iyi görmez fazla ???kta da.

There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.

Sólo busco en los libros el gusto que me proporcione un honrado entretenimiento; o, si estudio, solo busco la ciencia que trate del conocimiento de mí mismo y que me instruya en un bien morir y un bien vivir

It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.

We ought to desire whatever is really good for us and nothing else.

En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.

O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.

I am pleased that you are so fully convinced of my candour, for to know that you suspected me of a deficiency in this virtue would grieve and mortify me beyond expression. I do not derive any merit from the possession of it, for in me it is constitutional. Yet I think where it is possessed it will rarely exist alone, and where it is wanted there is reason to doubt the existence of almost every other virtue.

Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think [and speak] about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others" (Phil. 4:8 LB).

And even now, these elite justice advocates celebrated their own virtue, and the shared presumption of their superior morality, without seeming to notice that they had become — in less than a year — exactly what they had spent their adult lives professing most to hate.

HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

It is always safe to talk about others as long as you speak of their good qualities.

even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness

La envidia es la religión de los mediocres. Los reconforta, responde a las inquietudes que los roen por dentro y, en último término, les pudre el alma y les permite justificar su mezquindad y su codicia hasta creer que son virtudes y que las puertas del cielo sólo se abrirán para los infelices como ellos

Son las alimañas mezquinas quienes siempre se sienten virtuosas y miran al resto del mundo por encima del hombro.

Jaloezie is de religie van de middelmatigen. Het sterkt ze, het beantwoordt aan de onrust die vanbinnen aan ze knaagt en uiteindelijk verteert het hun ziel, terwijl het ze toestaat hun eigen kleinzieligheid en hebzucht te rechtvaardigen totdat ze denken dat het deugden zijn.

A lineup of ladies with their virtue for rent and a lot of mileage on the clock greeted us with smiles that would only have excited a student of dentistry.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It

The goat boy never gloats.

This conception of representation appears throughout The Federalist Papers. No. 57 urges that: "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Cos as me dad always said, fast women and slow horses get you nowhere.