The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance.
Virtue alone is happiness; all else
Is else, and without praise.
Tags: virtue
The immoral can no more earn respect
Than the envious be rich.
Tags: virtue respect right-conduct
Those are fools however learned
Who have not learned to walk with the world.
Tags: learning virtue right-conduct
Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.
Isabel AllendeTags: virtue
...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
H. Rider HaggardTags: virtue compliments steadfastness compliment reliability
I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.
Walter ScottTags: truth philosophy virtue decency
My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.
Tags: evil hate virtue wicked vice scorn misanthrope toleration detest
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
AkhenatonTags: woman virtue modesty beautiful
Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire, and to pursue only what is moral and right, that men should be subject to nothing, not to another man, not to some disturbing passion, not to Fortune.
The second trait, when your character has the disposition I outlined just now, is to perform the kind of services that are significant and most beneficial; but they should also be services that are a severe challenge, that are filled with ordeals, and that endanger not only your life but also the many comforts that make life attractive.
Of these two traits, all the glory, magnificence, and the advantage, too, let us not forget, are in the second, while the drive and the discipline that make men great are in the former.
Tags: virtue de-officiis
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