Quotes About Virtue

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

Be good and you will be lonely.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.

wanting good government in their states, they first established order in their own families; wanting order in the home, they first disciplined themselves . .

It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.

The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.