Virtue Quotes

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Be a nice person. Be a good person.

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it - it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.

It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed…Great necessities call out great virtues.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.