Quotes About Virtue

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Do not expect good from another's death.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.