Quotes About Virtue

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Happiness is a moral obligation

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.