Quotes about Virtue

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Character is that which can do without success.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.