Quotations About Virtue
A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.
Muhammad
The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan
The Philosophy of Despair
The Philosophy of Despair
Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.
Denis Diderot
Rameau's Nephew, 1762
Rameau's Nephew, 1762
Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.
André Maurois
Ariel, 1924
Ariel, 1924
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Horace Mann
"Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859
"Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
Anne Petry
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
Martin H. Fischer
The excess of virtue is a vice.
Greek Proverb
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
Henry David Thoreau