Quotes About Virtue

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.