Quotes About Virtue

There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battle ground, and flesh may become fire.

Cosmopolitanism, once considered a virtue, is less in vogue than nativism.

Today, nearly two-thirds of the citizens in EU countries believe immigration has a harmful impact on their societies. Cosmopolitanism, once considered a virtue, is less in vogue than nativism.

For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.

Perhaps such things pass for virtue among the gods. But how is there glory in taking life? We die so easily. Would you make him another Pyrrhus? Let the stories of him be something more.

Among our bragging, ranting heroes, Peleus was the exception: a man of modesty.

nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue."48

And you can sit out here in the hour before dawn, boy, and think virtuous thoughts and tell yourself how noble you are and all that shit, and you are going to lay back and hang on to the money, because that is the way the world keeps score. Not your way. Not lately.

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

The notion that the gods care how we treat one another would have been dismissed as patently absurd. . . . This was the moral climate in which Christianity taught that mercy is one of the primary virtues—that a merciful God requires humans to be merciful. . . . This was revolutionary stuff. Indeed, it was the cultural basis for the revitalization of the Roman world. (Stark, The Rise of Christianity, 209–15.)

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

But wilde Ambition loves to slide, not stand; And Fortunes Ice prefers to Vertues Land

You are never a great man when you have more mind than heart. —BEAUCHENE

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Orang yang dilimpahi banyak karunia, dituntut untuk berbuat banyak kebaikan.

This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues - courage. 'Grace under pressure', Earnest Hemingway defined it.

The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money. Then when they have money they don't know what to do with it. They forget all the old virtues, which weren't real virtues anyway. They think the only virtue is to make more money and to spend. They can't imagine that there are people to whom money is nothing. That the most beautiful things are quite independent of money.

We hardly said anything, we seemed to communicate through the chessmen, there was something very symbolic about my winning. That he wished me to feel. I don't know what it was. I don't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my "virtue" triumphed over his "vice" or something subtler, that sometimes losing is winning.

Asta a fost tragedia. Nu c? un om a avut curajul de a fi tic?los, dar c? milioane de oameni nu au avut curajul de a fi buni.

was the future king of Scotland and France, and by virtue

you ought to be good even if you did not believe that you would burn in torment forever if you were bad;

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.