Quotes About Virtue

What is dignity without honesty?

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

The end of education is character

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Evil is only good perverted.

Better not to exist than live basely.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.