Quotes About Virtue

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

That must have been the character of the man.

Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death.

To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man.

In enjoyment is the fear of disease, In high birth, the fear of losing caste, In wealth, the fear of tyrants, In honour, the fear of losing it, In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and

but for a man to constantly do good without caring for the approbation of his fellow men is indeed the highest sacrifice man can perform.

The cow never tells a lie, and the stone never steals, but, nevertheless, the cow remains a cow and the stone a stone. Man steals and man tells lies, and again it is man that becomes a god.

Then Krishna says, "O Arjuna, you and I have run the cycle of births and deaths many times, but you are not conscious of them all. I am without beginning, birthless, the absolute Lord of all creation. I through my own nature take form. Whenever virtue subsides and wickedness prevails, I come to help mankind. For the salvation of the good, for the destruction of wickedness, for the establishment

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.