Quotes About Virtues

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

The great virtues were that mathematics remained rigorously free from emotional content, free from ethical content, and free from political content. It allowed people to try to rise to the top by being reasoning scientists and scholars, instead of being bullying politicians or priests.

Kendini çok be?endi?in halde kusurlar?n? bilmedi?in gibi, meziyetlerinin de fark?na varmad?n. Genellikle sert, duygusuz ve bencil göründün. Bu özelliklerinde huysuz bir çocu?a benziyordun.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

The virtues acquired are the flesh of Christ and whoever eats it will find inner freedom. The contemplation of creatures is the blood of Christ and whoever drinks it will be enlightened by him. The knowledge of God is the breast of Christ and whoever rests on it will be a theologian. Evagrius of Pontus Mirror for Monks,

They felt that perhaps religion had lost many of its original virtues and people would become more and more called to paths such as witchery because they sought a direct relationship with spirit that invited self-exploration and self-creation.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Genius is oftentimes but a poor fool, who clinging to a thing that belongs to no age, Truth, does oftentimes live on a pittance and die in a hospital: but whosoever has the gift to measure aright their generation is invincible —living, they shall enjoy all the vices undetected; and dead, on their tombstones they shall possess all the virtues.

What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.

The American people will need to begin living the virtues, values, and principles of self-government in their own personal lives and daily actions before they can expect to live them as a nation.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

La perfection du juste est formée de la bonne composition des sept péchés capitaux, comme la lumière blanche de la composition des sept couleurs traditionnelles. »

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.