Quotes About Virtue

There is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness.

Jut then I'm stuck by a truth so real it might as well be a bolt of lightning: there is no greater evil than the one that cloaks itself in virtue.

Monks and nuns full of arrogance, Proud laymen, and laywomen of little faith: In the assembly of the four groups, such people Were five thousand in number. Not seeing their own errors, Failing to observe the precepts And carefully defending their faults, These people of little wisdom have already left. Those dregs of the assembly left Because of the Buddha's dignity and virtue. Such people of little merit and virtue Are incapable of receiving the Dharma.

By cutting off pride and arrogance, He has acquired such a glorious body.

Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.

Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he kan;Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.

Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.

She is mirour of alle curteisye.

That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

Thus it should appear to everyone that the best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come.

Woyzeck Yes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Education is the art of making man ethical

Societies need strong mediating communities through which traditions of personal virtue, common good and ultimate meaning are transmitted to new generations. It is hard to see how such communities can flourish without a religious dimension, and in traditionally Christian lands, that means a Christian one.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.