Quotes About Virtue

Now it is fashionable to be democratic, to pretend that no virtue or wisdom can exist outside corduroy, and to abuse the middle classes. One season we go slumming, and the next we are all socialists. We think we are thinking; we are simply dressing ourselves up in words we do not understand for the gods to laugh at us.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father - a noble, pious man.

Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

A noble minded person is not an implement.

Making a name for yourself comes from cultivating endurance and patience that even angels will love to have

Phronesis is a beautiful virtue, practise it and you shall reap the rewards…

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Be Good. But don't be a fool.

Always aim for right and avoid doing wrong at all costs.

Question: Is it Tyron or Tryon Edwards? There seems to be a discrepancy. What is meant by ill-desert or is this a typo?

vertus héroïques en se référant à Okulicki et de vertus quotidiennes pour les cas rapportés par Edelman.

Les vertus héroïques sont plutôt estimées par des hommes, alors que les vertus quotidiennes sont le fait autant, sinon plus, de femmes (mais il est vrai que les qualités physiques requises sont différentes ici et là).

Il est donc possible d'introduire une distinction au milieu des héros et des saints : entre ceux qui désirent que les êtres humains soient les bénéficiaires de leur action – et ceux qui les oublient, n'aspirant qu'à avoir un comportement conforme à l'idéal d'héroïsme ou de sainteté. Kolbe

morale. Enfin, même si l'on pouvait observer une relation entre souffrance et morale, je ne vois pas quelle espèce de précepte on devrait en tirer : personne ne peut s'arroger le droit de recommander aux autres d'aspirer au malheur pour devenir plus vertueux.