Virtue
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive'. I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Perfect is the virtue which is according to the Mean! Rare have they long been among the people, who could practice it!
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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