Quotes About Virtue

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.