1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Wherefore also Cleanthes, in the second book, On Pleasure, says that Socrates everywhere teaches that the just man and the happy are one and the same, and execrated the first man who separated the just from the useful, as having done an impious thing. For those are in truth impious who separate the useful from that which is right' according to the law.

When you put on your thinking cap make sure it’s clean.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.

Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.

The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.

To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.