Quotes About Virtue

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

An honest man is respected by all parties.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Only great men have great faults.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .