Quotes on Virtue

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.