Quotes about Virtue
as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.
— Herman Melville
My lord, it is easier for some men to be saints, than for others not to be sinners.
— Herman Melville
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