Virtue Quotes

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder" "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil " "Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues" "The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete." "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected" "Be as you wish to seem" "He that can have patience can have what he will" "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them" "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others" "In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one." "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God." "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." "One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining that there is some sort of ground rule applied to the universe by which final triumph if you are strong enough, and the ultimate success of virtue if you are good enough, is inevitable." "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished "