Quotes About Virtue

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.