(911 quotes found)
“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
Lao Tzu
“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
Buddha
“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
Saint Augustine
“The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing”
Blaise Pascal
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?”
Chanakya
“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference”
Voltaire
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue”
Moliere
