The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.].
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them..
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?.
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to ad….
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition ….
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul..
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them..
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty..
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness i….
When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome..
While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source….
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues..
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata ….
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by….
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues..
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being..
Every vice has its excuse ready..
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me..
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue..
Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort..
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us..