1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

The political men of Greece who lived under popular government recognized no other force to sustain it than virtue. Those of today speak to us only of manufacturing, commerce, finance, wealth, and even luxury.

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...