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...

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first,...

Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with adversity, for...

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Compassion is not a virtue — it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have — it’s something we choose to practice.

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable,...

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him…As for the virtuous poor…they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their...

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.” Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked. “Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist...

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue;...

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect–evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice at the hands of the worst of men, burn with hatred...

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that men have then added their own foreign vices to the solid and simple...

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all...

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but...

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its...

Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, “This thing called the Way – where does it exist?”Zhuangzi said, “There’s no place it doesn’t exist.””Come,” said Master Dongguo, “you must be more specific!””It is in the ant.””As low a...

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise…guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do...

Patience is a virtue I don’t have.

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

…For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Yea… It’s impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers… people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may...

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude