Quotes About Virtue

There is no such thing as moral standards if you don't believe in morality.

Buscar la verdad es la mayor virtud y es lo que hace que un drama sea interesante. No me interesa contar historias con perfume de rosas en las que todo va bien

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.

when virtue had been declared a crime, there was no refuge even in reticence.

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeeds somehow made me virtuous.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!

Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

Christian ethics maintains that the whole man must be good in intellect and will, heart and conscience. To do good is a duty and a desire, a task and a privilege, and thus the work of love. Love is therefore the fulfilling of the law.

By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no duty, no virtue, and no highest good.

Sprookje Er was eens een man die altijd rechtvaardig was.

A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.

pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.

And he had learned that pity was insatiable—a false virtue that always craved more suffering to show how limitless and magnificent it could be.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.