Quotes about Virtue
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
- Dante Alighieri
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
- Teresa of Avila
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
- Robert Frost
The object of the superior man is truth.
- Confucius
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
- CS Lewis
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
- Seneca
As was his language so was his life.
- Seneca
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- Seneca
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
- Seneca