Quotes About Virtue

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.

Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Virtue is the health of the soul.