Never sacrifice what’s right for what’s convenient.

If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.

A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances over which he had no control. His wickedness was an irrelevant accident. In...

Virtue – to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well,Is a clot of warmer dust,Mix’d with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin

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.

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue–and there are...

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is,...

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can...

Ah, EugTnie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and child.It is a question of justice, of mercy, of honesty, of...

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be...

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

There’s no credit in not doing what you don’t want to do. There’s no virtue in not falling, when you’re not tempted.

Socrate considérait que c’est un mal qui n’est pas loin de la folie, de s’imaginer que l’on possède une vertu, alors qu’on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l’illusion...

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

A Credo: For the 21st Century eudaimonas architect of choosing…choose. to. live.awakened. entirely. wholly.wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative,thriving. this is not a hoped-for possible self.[reminder: we were born this way]needing not to learn the skill of being...

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious;...

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Independence and frankness are at a discount. Complacent anticipation of the monarch’s wishes is then the greatest of all virtues. One...

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Riches, the dumb god that giv’st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak’st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made...

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government… without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand...

Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.

The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is...

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

To live with integrity, it is important to know what’s right and what’s wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple:...

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.