Quotes About Virtue

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

She slept the sleep of the just.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of vou!

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.