Quotes about Virtue

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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love — Ayn Rand
For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision an — James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to la — Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, te — Aristotle
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith — John Henry Jowett
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy n — A.W. Tozer
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it — Joseph Smith Jr.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right? — Epictetus
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Murray N. Rothbard
...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give b — Plato, The Symposium
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an ou — Francis Bacon
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men... — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience! — Diogenes Laërtius
I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her char — Walter Scott, Kenilworth
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public servi — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the ab — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began."And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argume — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something."T — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic