Quotes about Virtue
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Cicero
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
- Diane von Furstenberg
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
- Marcus Aurelius
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
- Thomas Paine
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
- CS Lewis
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
- Teresa of Avila
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
- Publilius Syrus
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
- Mark Twain
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
- St. Augustine
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
- Joseph Addison
There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate
- Dennis Prager