Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat. , Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos. ]
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.
Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.
I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.
An essential virtue is humility. . . . The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Virtue is not photogenic.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of His suffering or humiliation; whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of His obedience or righteousness.