quotations about virtue
The narrowest path
Is always the holiest
DEPECHE MODE
"Judas"
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
Virtue is admirable, but boring.
JOHN TWELVE HAWKS
The Traveler
Because virtue is an ideal, to go further down the road of virtue is always possible.
JOHN W. CHAPMAN
Virtue: Nomos XXXIV
The habit of virtue is a fire-drill in a school which leads confused children through smoke to safety.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The noblest gain from virtue springs,
And virtue joy unending brings.
VALMIKI
The Ramayan
Virtue is as good as a thousand shields.
LATIN PROVERB
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Most of our virtues are gouty from lack of exercise.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Virtue is the conformity of our affections and actions with the public good, or the voluntary production of the greatest happiness in ourselves and others.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The most precious treasure is virtue.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
Virtues are to the person what nutrition is to the body.
DONALD DEMARCO
"A Modest Proposal for an Immodest Culture", National Catholic Register, April 22, 2017
Virtue always meets reward,
But quicker when it wears a sword.
BRET HARTE
"The Legends of the Rhine"
While bars and bolts may baffle the thief, virtue alone will defeat the slanderer.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.
MARCEL PROUST
Within a Budding Grove
Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
MARK TWAIN
Innocents Abroad
Virtue wears well in any garb.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
EPICTETUS
Fragments
Virtue and vice are the only things in this world, which, with our souls, are capable of surviving death; the former is the rational and only procuring cause of all intellectual happiness, and the latter of conscious guilt and misery; and therefore, our indispensable duty and ultimate interest is, to love, cultivate and improve the one, as the means of our greatest good, and to hate and abstain from the other, as productive of our greatest evil.
ETHAN ALLEN
Reason: The Only Oracle of Man