Virtue Quotes

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.