Ethical Virtue Quotes

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Virtue has needs of limits.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.