Quotes About Virtue

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.