Quotes About Virtue

Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

My characters come from a good place.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.