Quotes About Virtue

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics