Quotes about Virtue

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, that would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Virtue could see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where, with her best nurse contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.