Quotes about Virtue
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences
- John Adams
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
- Joseph Addison
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
- Martin Luther
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
- Martin Luther
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
- Martin Luther
I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
- Martin Luther
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.
- Martin Luther
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
- Martin Luther
There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at — if you will pardon the expression — a man's behind.
- Martin Luther
If every man had faith, we would need no more laws, but every one would of himself at all times do good works, as his confidence in God teaches him.
- Martin Luther