Quotes about Virtue
Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
- Marcus Aurelius
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
- John Adams
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
- Confucius
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
- Dante Alighieri
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
- Aristotle
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
- CS Lewis
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
- Euripides
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
- Marcus Aurelius
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
- Samuel Johnson
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
- Samuel Johnson
An honest man is respected by all parties.
- William Hazlitt