Quotes about Virtue
By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no duty, no virtue, and no highest good.
- Herman Bavinck
A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them.
- Herman Melville
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
- Herman Melville
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
- Hippocrates
It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.
- Jerome
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
- Cicero
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
- George Eliot
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
- Aristotle