Quotes on Virtue

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of Christian charity; such as affability, love and humility. These virtues serve wonderfully to gain the hearts of men, and to encourage them to embrace things that are more repugnant to nature.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.