Quotes About Virtue

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Wisdom, character, and consciousness conquer everything.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.