Quotes About Virtue

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

Only men of character are trusted.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.