Quotes About Virtue

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

The truly humble person always walks in doubt about his own virtues, and usually those he sees in his neighbors seem more certain and more valuable.

But here the Lord asks only two things of us: love for His Majesty and love for our neighbour. It is for these two virtues that we must strive, and if we attain them perfectly we are doing His will and so shall be united with Him.

Of the good things they do many will pass unnoticed, or will even not be considered good at all; but they need not fear that any evil or imperfect thing they do will be overlooked.

The truly humble person will have a genuine desire to be thought little of, and persecuted, and condemned unjustly, even in serious matters. For, if she desires to imitate the Lord, how can she do so better than in this? And no bodily strength is necessary here, nor the aid of anyone save God.