quotations about virtue
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
Virtue is as good as a thousand shields.
LATIN PROVERB
The narrowest path
Is always the holiest
DEPECHE MODE
"Judas"
The noblest gain from virtue springs,
And virtue joy unending brings.
VALMIKI
The Ramayan
The most precious treasure is virtue.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
SIGMUND FREUD
The Interpretation of Dreams
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The habit of virtue is a fire-drill in a school which leads confused children through smoke to safety.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
EPICTETUS
Fragments
Both excess and defect are alike prejudicial to moral virtue.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Virtue wears well in any garb.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Most of our virtues are gouty from lack of exercise.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER
Aurora
The great reason why false virtues pass so well in the world is, that true ones are so seldom near to compare them with.
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims, Characters and Reflections
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
AESOP
"The Thieves and the Cock", Aesop's Fables
Virtue, like beauty, is commonly only skin deep.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Virtues are to the person what nutrition is to the body.
DONALD DEMARCO
"A Modest Proposal for an Immodest Culture", National Catholic Register, April 22, 2017
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
CONFUCIUS
The Doctrine of the Mean