The essence of virtue
is that the whole is not led astray by the part.
-Nigel Richmond
The endeavor to understand
is the first and only basis of virtue.
-Baruch Spinoza
Virtue is reason
which has become energy.
-Friedrich Schlegel
Virtue lies in the right
employment and disposition of energy.
-N. Sri Ram
Virtue consists in actions,
and not in words.
-Wiliam Godwin
Virtue is more clearly shown
in the performance of fine actions
and the non-performance of base ones.
-Aristotle
The virtues, like the body,
become strong more by labour than by nourishment.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
All human virtues increase and strengthen themselves
by the practice and experience of them.
-Socrates
The virtues are together so closely intertwined
That he who one possess may all the others find.
-Angelus Silesius
Great necessities call out great virtues.
-Abigail Adams
All you have really to do
is to keep your back as straight as you can;
and not think about what is upon it -
above all, not to boast of what is upon it.
The real and essential meaning of "virtue"
is in that straightness of back.
-John Ruskin
Courage is not simply one of the virtues,
but the form of every virtue at its testing point.
-Cyril Connolly
Virtue is nothing else
but action in accordance with the laws of one's own nature.
-Baruch Spinoza
Character is based on virtuous action
and virtuous action is grounded on truth.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Virtue is both a sense of ethics
and force of personality.
-Deng Ming-Dao
Virtue, perhaps,
is nothing more than politeness of soul.
-Honore de Balzac
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue,
so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
-Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Virtue is true self-interest pursued.
-Edward Young
The highest proof of virtue
is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
-Thomas Babington McCaulay
Assume a virtue
if you have it not.
-William Shakespeare
Is virtue a thing remote?
I wish to be virtuous,
and lo! virtue is at hand.
-William Shakespeare
Effortlessness is a sign of deep virtue.
-Deng Ming-Dao
Make virtue a necessity.
-Geoffrey Chaucer
The only path to a tranquil life
is through virtue.
-Juvenal
The quality of virtue can only be
where there is no conflict whatsoever.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
If virtue precede us
every step will be safe.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Virtue is harmony.
-Pythagoras
Virtue, like health,
is the harmony of the whole man.
-Thomas Carlyle
Virtue is the music of the soul,
the harmony of the passions;
it is the order, the symmetry,
the interior beauty of the mind;
the source of the truest pleasures,
the fountain of the sublimest
and most perfect happiness.
-Mary Collyer
Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments,
which sound best in a room;
but man's that of wind instruments,
which sound best in open air.
-Johann Paul FriedrichRichter
Virtue is the health, true state,
natural complexion of the Soul.
-Benjamin Whichcote
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups.
A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
-Jane Porter
Constancy is the complement
of all other human virtues.
-Giuseppe Mazzini
The greatest virtues
are those which are most useful to other persons.
-Aristotle
Beauty adorns virtue.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Every virtue is but an expression of beauty.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Modesty is the color of virtue.
-Diogenes
Virtue is like a rich stone,
best plain set.
-Francis Bacon
Virtues, like essences,
lose their fragrance when exposed.
-William Shenstone
Virtue is like precious odors -
most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
-Francis Bacon
Respect, consideration, reverence,
kindness, compassion and sympathy,
forgiveness and gratefulness,
all these virtues can be best adorned
by subtlety of expression.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The less a man knows about his virtues,
the better he like him.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love alone is a fountain
from which all virtues fall
as drops of sparkling water.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Virtue is the fount
whence honour springs.
-Christopher Marlowe
Who sows virtue
reaps honor.
-Leonardo da Vinci
In virtue there is always reward
-The Oculatum
Virtue is herself
her own coveted reward.
-Ovid
The only reward for virtue is virtue.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recommend to you children virtue,
that alone can make them happy, not gold.
-Ludwig von Beethoven
With virtue you cannot be entirely poor.
Without it you cannot be really rich.
-Chinese Proverb
Virtue could see to do
what Virtue would by her own radiant light,
though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk.
-John Milton
Virtue is the truest nobility.
-Miguel de Cervantes
Virtue alone is the unerring sign
of a noble soul.
-Nicholas Boileau
Virtue is the only friend
that accompanies man beyond death. -The Mahabharata
