Quotes About Virtue

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.

I don't want to sit here and disparage Paul Ryan the man, because he's a good guy. He's a moral person. He's a decent person.

If you go about life the right way and you're good to other people that will show and will payoff in the long run.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

To-day, the man who pays taxes to the amount of two hundred francs is virtuous; the talented man is the honest pickpocket: such truths as these are accounted trivial.

PRESCRIPTION A bit of virtue will never hurt you.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth And what flies up, though it be but a spark, Shall have weight.

De los hombres justos el Tiempo es el mejor salvador.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.