Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more....

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

When virtue meets smartness in a woman, you have a wife

The times might be unpleasant, repulsive. The ghastly chaos, the abhorrent uncivility might be intolerable, might force us into argument or leave us panic-stricken.On such occasions people build within themselves a conviction, that the world...

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

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...