Quotes About Virtue

Por ello las acciones que en un caso pueden poner diques a la fortuna y resultar virtuosas, en el otro pueden fracasar; por ello también el par virtud/fortuna tiene una acepción unipersonal e individual en el primer caso (el recogido en El príncipe) y otra colectiva y republicana en el segundo (el de los Discursos).

It is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin by the great number who are not good.

Sono questi dominii cosí acquistati, o consueti a vivere sotto uno principe, o usi ad essere liberi; et acquistonsi, o con le armi d'altri o con le proprie, o per fortuna o per virtù.

L'homme qui en toutes choses veut faire profession de bonté se ruine inéluctablement parmi tant d'hommes qui n'ont aucune bonté.

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How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.' (ch XV)

He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though. "Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.

Because he believed in honesty and integrity, my father believed that others did as well. He believed in human decency and assumed others were just like him. He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

I'm happy in my own world, and I'm also a good boy.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.

the awards and prominent positions that come with bowing before authority mean nothing to the rebel, who understands that virtue is not rewarded. The rebel expects nothing and gets nothing. But for the rebel, to refuse to struggle, to refuse to rebel, is to commit spiritual and moral suicide.

La vertu de ren, que l'on traduit par « humanité », est centrale dans la morale confucéenne.

When words are many, sin is not absent, / but he who holds his tongue is wise (Proverbs 10:19).

You always take the high road, Master Kenobi," said Desh.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

Honor is a damnable trait and one that may not last eternity.

You're a good man, Vittorio. No matter what, you're a good man.