Quotes About Virtue

Kindness defines my morality.

Let us not be judged by actions, but by means.

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

You will not be rewarded for your good nature. Your good nature is your reward.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.