Quotes About Virtue

Sin as little as possible - that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly tings are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police.

Chapter1 M. Myriel

To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!

La honradez de un gran corazón, condensada en justicia y en verdad, fulmina.

Cometer la menor cantidad de pecados posibles es la ley del hombre. No cometer ninguno es el sueño del ángel.

Pecar o menos possível é a lei dos homens. Não pecar nunca é sonho de anjos. Tudo o que é da terra está sujeito ao pecado. O pecado é uma gravitação.

Ma non basta essere cattivi, per prosperare.

This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.

Finally, he said to himself that it was a necessity, that his destiny was so fixed, that it was not for him to derange the arrangements of God, that at all events he must choose, either virtue without, and abomination within, or sanctity within, and infamy without.

Chi vuole restar virtuosa non deve aver compassione per le sue mani.

It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. As for Zephine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing little way of saying Yes, sir.

but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

It's so easy to do the wrong thing in life, don't you think? When we see a clear road to being a better person, we ought to take it.

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.

For Northerners, victory had confirmed they were on God's side, fortifying their besetting smugness, and their religion resolved more and more into a pretty, reassuring background hum. Going to church meant sitting quietly and listening to lectures about virtue.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Who says that taking the supposed high road is the best path?

While there are some who extol your virtues, Miss Faber, there are others who wonder why you are not yet hanged." "I have determined that hanging would not suit my constitution, Sir, so I have tried to avoid it." A

Attitude is a virtue of those who live reality. For everything else, they would do better to remain asleep, dreaming.

The true good deeds are performed in silence.

I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.

For a moment Eustace contemplated an existence spent in pleasing himself. How would he set about it? He had been told by precept, and had learned from experience, that the things he did to please himself usually ended in making other people grieved and angry, and were therefore wrong. Was he to spend his life in continuous wrong-doing, and in making other people cross? There would be no pleasure in that. Indeed what pleasure was there, except in living up to people's good opinion of him?