Quotes About Virtue

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Only good people feel guilt.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.