virtue Quotes

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.