I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone..
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete wit….
It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulder….
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune..
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone..
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed..
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed..
Not everything that is legal is reputable..
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good..
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the wh….
It is easy to kick a person when he is down..
Never build yourself up by tearing another down..
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumi….
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate..
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the….
I just don't like being told what to do..
I never take myself too seriously..
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reacti….
Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue..
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue..
Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue..