Virtue Quotes - Page 52

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.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Simplicity is always a virtue.