Virtue Quotes - Page 4

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Kindness is virtue itself.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.