Quotes about Virtue

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

Honesty is the best policy

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.

they follow nature as the most perfect guide to a good life. Now

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

You think I didn't hate their pity, their forced kindness? And knowing that no matter what I did, how virtuous I was, or hardworking, I would never be beautiful. Not like her, the one who merely had to sit there to be adored. You wonder why I stabbed the blue eyes of my dolls with pins and pulled their hair out until they were bald? Life isn't fair. Why should I be?

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.