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Quotes About Virtue

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
~ Joseph Addison
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
~ Proverbs
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.
~ William Ogden
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
~ Bible
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
~ Thomas Paine
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
~ Honore de Balzac
A modest man never talks of himself.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
~ William Hazlitt
Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
~ Lord Shawcross
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~ Theodore H. White
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
~ Italian proverb
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Morality is not respectability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
~ Bible
Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
~ Carlo Goldoni
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
~ Joseph Addison
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater