Quotes about Virtue

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue! 80 Who would not be that youth? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!8 —Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war. 85 —Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.