Quotes About Virtue

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with virtue, a harmony pervades. VIII.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.

All through the history of the world, the virtuous have suffered for causes unseen. Learn from Nal and Damayanti to bear your misfortunes bravely. Like theirs, your evil times, too, will come to an end.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)

Meditating regularly is like being fertilized. Throw the fertilizer on the ground and whatever is in the ground - either good or bad seeds - will grow. Everything, whether vice or virtue, is magnified. Unless a person in the spiritual path practices character-building, (s)he may tend to become worse.

Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner.

Good people don't rush in to do evil where angels fear to tread; instead, they start by straying only a small way away from their moral center, and each successive step down is hardly different, barely noticeable, until it is too late and their behavior is shocking and may even be…awful.

regard as nothing place and office, when either is to be attained or held at the sacrifice of honor.

Nothing is so inconsistent with the life of any Christian as overindulgence. —The Rule of Benedict

Press on eternally to the higher and larger realization of absolute goodness, and leave results to the law. More and more real goodness will naturally appear in all your thoughts and actions. You will therefore become good, not by thinking that you are good, but by thinking thoughts that are created in the image and likeness of that which is good.

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Your virtue is safe with me. Your discomfort is rather charming, actually, but I'm sure you'll get over it.

Upright and do right make all right.

Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.

Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves." "Actually,

Upright and do right makes all right.

Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it." She

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.

In our corrupt times, the virtue of a Pontiff is commended when he does not surpass the wickedness of other men. —Francesco Guicciardini, History of Italy, 1561