Quotes About Virtue

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. (...) It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes parish desire the downfall of parish. Each seeks peace of mind and subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue.

Space' (it says here, rather suggestively) 'denotes the property, you are my property, in virtue of which, you are my virtue, rigid bodies can occupy different positions.' Nice? Nice.

because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

He who possesses virtue in abundanceMay be compared to an infant.

The Way of Heaven has no favorites.It is always with the good man.

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

[The sage] never strives himself for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;

If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot.

Being good all the time was a bad bargain.

Doing the right thing has power.

Nothing's worse than a bad person who thinks he's good.

I have also learned—through hard experience—that there is no virtue in putting something on a to-do list and then not doing it. It's just as not done as if it were never on the list in the first place, only now it's sitting there, mocking me in its undoneness.