quotations about virtue
The narrowest path
Is always the holiest
DEPECHE MODE
"Judas"
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
The great reason why false virtues pass so well in the world is, that true ones are so seldom near to compare them with.
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims, Characters and Reflections
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
The most precious treasure is virtue.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
SIGMUND FREUD
The Interpretation of Dreams
Many virtues are but disguised vices.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Virtue wears well in any garb.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The noblest gain from virtue springs,
And virtue joy unending brings.
VALMIKI
The Ramayan
Virtue is as good as a thousand shields.
LATIN PROVERB
Most of our virtues are gouty from lack of exercise.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
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
While bars and bolts may baffle the thief, virtue alone will defeat the slanderer.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
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"
The more we use wisdom and virtue, the more they are our own, and the more we have of them.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
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