Virtue Quotes

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives...

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanati...

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, ...

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodolog...

The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire...

Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of pro...

Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to bat...

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at ...

...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, ...

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the leas...

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by perform...

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the sou...

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by...

Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts,...

In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns ...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, ...

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own c...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

If this is vise I want no virtue....I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happine...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to ...

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence...

Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is ...

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his h...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give...

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your h...

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But ...

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest ...

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be some...

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independenc...

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousn...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessaril...

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all ...

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or ...

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praecept...

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day co...

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual ...

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the o...

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's s...

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take...

Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, le...

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them w...

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; ther...

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with...