Quotes about Virtue, page 2

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Quote by Aristotel about 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.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

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

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

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

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Quote by Aristotel about virtue

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about virtue

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about virtue

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about virtue

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about virtue

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

Quote by Albert Camus about virtue

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about virtue

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about virtue

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one...

Quote by Paul Gauguin about virtue

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Quote by Silius Italicus about virtue