1,046 Quotes About Virtue

In the so-called world, nothing remains. Everything vanishes when its time but virtue and compassion make you immortal.

Ignorance is evil; conscious transgression is worse; virtue is difficult to achieve; the passions are many; the demons are crafty and subtle; sin is easy; death is near; the reckoning is bitter.

And now you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

For goodness that is beyond virtue, and hence beyond temptation, ignorant of the argumentative reasoning by which man fends off temptations and, by this very process, comes to know the ways, of wickedness, is also incapable of learning the arts of persuading and arguing.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

A state of confusion overtook Saleem. If he told the truth he would face the punishment; instant but painful. If he lies he would be safe but would have to tell lies throughout his life and live with continuous guilt

If you have too much or too little of something in your character, you are often seen as an anomaly - you then have a disorder. The Spartans were diagnosed with too much virtue. Thus, she was hated by all her neighbours.