Quotes About Virtue

Los grandes canallas tienen algo de héroes y los grandes héroes tienen algo de canallas.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Para Aristóteles, el poder, la riqueza y las amistades eran los tres elementos que constituían la felicidad de una persona.

For Aristotle, power along with wealth and friendships were the three components that added up to a person's happiness.

Aristóteles, el poder, la riqueza y las amistades eran los tres elementos que constituían la felicidad de una persona. La

Good sense avoids all extremes, and requires us to be soberly rational. This unbending and virtuous stiffness of ancient times shocks too much the ordinary customs of our own; it requires too great perfection from us mortals; we must yield to the times without being too stubborn; it is the height of folly to busy ourselves in correcting the world.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

That virtue here below is hated ever; The envious may die, but envy never.

true heroes never are the ones Who make much noise about their deeds

Die Tugend, deren die Gesellschaft bedarf, ist die Umgänglichkeit; zuviel Gesinnung kann durchaus tadelnswert sein; vollkommene Vernunft vermeidet alle extremen Einstellungen

Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des intervelles et que les hommes aient besoin de divertissement, je soutiens qu'on ne leur en peut trouver un qui soit plus innocent que la comédie.

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never.     ORGON

If all hearts were candid, just, and tractable, most of our virtues would be useless to us, inasmuch as their functions are to bear, without annoyance, the injustice of others in our good cause; and just in the same way as a heart full of virtue

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.