Quotes about Virtue
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
- JC Ryle
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
- James A. Garfield
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
- John Donne
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
- John Milton
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
- John Milton
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
- John Milton
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
- Joseph Addison
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
- Cicero
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Cicero
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
- Peter Kreeft