Quotes About Virtue

It's almost not necessary for us to do good. It's only necessary for us to stop doing evil, for goodness sake.

la mojigatería no es más que la cara opuesta de la lascivia.

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.

The latter was in praise of the virtuous wife, rarer than a pearl.

There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It's the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that's why they get noticed.

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

Esto te demuestra, Maurice, que la decencia sucumbe rápidamente ante la codicia.

Parece que todos los hombres de su familia han sido de buen corazón, Alma. Hay poca gente así en este mundo. - Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat us & destroy us. But remember that bold women are like cockroaches: step on one & others come running from the corners.

por cada virtud hay un pecado, por cada alegría una desdicha, por cada mal un bien y así, en el eterno girar de la rueda de la vida todo se compensa a través de los siglos.

Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No

Temple es una virtud apreciada en el varón, pero se considera defecto en nuestro sexo. Las mujeres con temple ponen en peligro el desequilibrio del mundo, que favorece a los hombres, por eso se ensañan en vejarlas y destruirlas. Pero son como las cucarachas: aplastan a una y salen más por los rincones.

There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.

Make a virtue of necessity.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Right action is the key to good living.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.