virtue Quotes

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Integrity has no need of rules.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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