Quotes About Virtue

Hay que estar siempre ebrio. Nada más: ése es todo el asunto. Para no sentir el horrible peso del Tiempo que os fatiga la espalda y os inclina hacia la tierra, tenéis que embriagaros sin tregua. Pero, ¿de qué? De vino, de poesía o de virtud, como queráis. Pero embriagaos.

virtud, al contrario, es artificial, sobrenatural, pues han hecho falta, en todas las épocas y en todas las naciones, dioses y profetas para enseñarlas a la humanidad animalizada; el hombre, por sí solo, habría sido incapaz de descubrirla. El mal se hace sin esfuerzo, naturalmente, por fatalidad; el bien es siempre producto de un arte.

Crime, the taste for which the human animal acquired in his mother's belly, is originally natural. Virtue, on the contrary, is artificial, supernatural, since in all times and nations, gods and prophets were necessary to teach it to animalized man, and since man alone would have been powerless to discover it. Evil is done without effort, naturally, by fatality.

Ce n'est que par les beaux sentiments qu'on parvient à la fortune.

On n'est jamais excusable d'être méchant, mais il y a quelque mérite à savoir qu'on l'est; et le plus irréparable des vices est de faire le mal par bêtise.

hell, I worked HARD all my life!" (they think this is a virtue, but it only proves a man is a damn fool.)

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Trying to be good made me sick.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings.

And in proportion as riches and rich men are honored in the state, virtue and the virtuous are dishonored. And what is honored is cultivated, and that which has no honor is neglected.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

For I fear the Gods, and show hospitality to all strangers; knowing that good deeds, like evil ones, always return to those who do them.

Rich seed of virtue lying hid in poor leaves!

All but a few of those messages of concern to the Senate and much of the commentary in the news media had come from people who held radical beliefs with evangelical passion and would spring ferociously to their defense at the slightest sign that they were being questioned. Hammett knew their minds: Correctness was virtue; belief was personal validity; doctrine was truth. All else was evil.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

An age or society would then be secular or not, in virtue of the conditions of experience of and search for the spiritual.

resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

It's because I want you to remember that character counts. You can be the best there ever was at something, but if you have no character, what do you have? On the other hand, if you have very little as far as accomplishments but you have character, well, then you're all right in my book.

In a traditional democracy, the liberal class functions as a safety valve. It makes piecemeal and incremental reform possible. It offers hope for change and proposes gradual steps toward greater equality. It endows the state and the mechanisms of power with virtue.

Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.

They failed to grasp the central Socratic paradox: that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.