Quotes About Virtue

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.