Quotes About Virtue

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now (70) I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime

When he is best he is a little worst than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast.

That which in mean men we entitle patience Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Put plainly, there is a natural moral law, existing in reality, i.e., not invented by man, which transcends and trumps our desires. Something is right or wrong, whether we like it or not.

Macbeth is a play that points to the advent, much like the turbulent last century of the Middle Ages, of a modern age gradually deracinated from its Christian grounding and increasingly enamored of a neopagan notion of virtu, of potentially infinite human achievement severed from metaphysical considerations.

If I lose my honor, I lose myself.

You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd you not.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

So shines a good deed in a naughty world

Anything that's mended is but patched. Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue

Aku seorang pekerja sejati, Aku makan dari hasil kerjaku, Membeli pakaian dengan uang sendiri, Aku tidak membenci orang lain, Tidak iri pada kebahagiaan orang lain, dan senang menyaksikan kesejahteraan orang lain.

She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proof of chastity well armed, From love's weak, childish bow she lives uncharmed. She won't be assaulted by loving eyes, and she won't accept gifts of gold.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name. Vileness is so: The property by what it is should go, Not by the title.

All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving

Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minc'd man; and then to be bak'd with no date in the pie, for then the man's date is out.

good alone Is good without a name, vileness is so

Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.

For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.