Quotes About Virtue

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

I think I am a moral man.

Man is a moral being.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.