Quotes About Virtue

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.

Nessuna condotta, neppure la più corretta, può sfuggire alla malevolenza della calunnia.

loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aun, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Mas o orgulho, onde quer que haja uma verdadeira superioridade intelectual, o orgulho estará sempre sob uma boa orientação.

ma Anne, con la sua raffinata intelligenza e la sua dolcezza, virtù che avrebbero dovuto collocarla molto in alto nella stima di chiunque fosse dotato di giudizio, non era nessuno né per il padre né per la sorella. La sua parola non aveva alcun valore, le sue esigenze erano sempre considerate poco importanti; era soltanto Anne

Lucy does not want sense, and that is the foundation on which every thing good may be built.

But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.

The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur

Yak?nl??? belirleyen ?ey zaman ya da imkan de?ildir, sadece karakterdir.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aún, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

Un carácter complejo no tiene qué ser más o menos estimable que uno como el suyo.

As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. I

Lucy no carece de juicio, y ése es el fundamento sobre el que se puede construir todo lo que es bueno.

How could she pursue the transcendence and virtue of the intellectual life when her mind had disappeared into her body like a sponge into a basin of ink? Which did not mean

He's a good man, Ranger said. And you? I'm better.

But in my experience, the virtuous are usually the first to die.