Quotes About Virtue

T]hey attribute to men a natural inclination to servitude, Ã¢â'¬Â¦ without thinking that it is the same for freedom as for innocence and virtue—their value is felt only as long as one enjoys them oneself and the taste for them is lost as soon as one has lost them.

Because it was right. Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was right.

If you can be pretty and smart and kind, well, that's what makes a real princess.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. —C. S. Lewis

Creamos hombres sin corazón y esperamos de ellos virtud y valentía. Nos reímos del honor y nos sorprendemos al encontrar traidores entre nosotros.

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The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

All humans search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad.

As pessoas não conseguem conceber que alguém tenha uma virtude que elas não conseguem conceber em si mesmas. Em vez de acreditar que você é mais forte, é mais fácil acreditar que você é mais fraco.

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves.

There is no quality of soul more subtle than non-violence and no virtue of spirit greater than reverence for life.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

I conclude, then, that the plea of having acted in the interests of a friend is not a valid excuse for a wrong action. . . . We may then lay down this rule of friendship--neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. For the plea for friendship's sake is a discreditable one, and not to be admitted for a moment.

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Give your oppressed masses a sense of virtue accumulated through suffering, and stand back and marvel as they censor themselves and act in a decent, God-fearing, law-abiding and—best of all—long-suffering manner, in order to feel ethically superior to you. I've

If you've achieved complete ass-out shamelessness, however, you can dispense with virtue quite easily. It's really very liberating, and crucial to great wealth in a free market. It's

Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium of exchange has anywhere else I have ever known or heard of. You have made it a power and a virtue and you have made the lack of it despicable and somehow even criminal. You measure men by money and you calibrate success with money and you almost worship money.

Hard work was a fundamental virtue, for hard work didn't allow time for marches or sit-ins. Elwood would not make a commotion of himself by messing with that movie-theater nonsense, she said. "You have made an agreement with Mr. Marconi to work in his store after school. If your boss can't depend on you, you won't be able to keep a job." Duty might protect him, as it had protected her.

Mere instruction in morality is not sufficient to nurture the virtues. It might even backfire, especially when the presentation is heavily exhortative and the pupil's will is coerced. Instead a compelling vision of the goodness of goodness itself needs to be presented in a way that is attractive and stirs the imagination.

A good moral education addresses both the cognitive and affective dimensions of human nature. Stories are an irreplaceable medium for this kind of moral education—that is, the education of character. The