Quotes about Virtue
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
— Epictetus
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
— George Eliot
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
— GK Chesterton
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
— Aristotle
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
— Aristotle
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
— Confucius
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
— Confucius
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
— Confucius
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
— Euripides
The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
— George Washington
Truth does not blush.
— Tertullian