Quotes about Virtue
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Phillips Brooks
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
- Anselm of Canterbury
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- St. Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
- St. Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
- St. Augustine
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
- St. Augustine
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
- St. Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
- St. Augustine
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
- St Bonaventure
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
- Saint Jerome
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- St. John Chrysostom
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas