Quotes About Virtue

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.