When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense…

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

“The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.”

— Patrick Mendis

Virtue is harmony.

— Pythagoras

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their…

— Sydney J. Harris

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it…

— Benjamin Franklin

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take…

— Mike Aquilina

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

— Abraham Lincoln

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between…

— Marcel Proust

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

— Daniel K Judd

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to…

— Anonymous

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

— Robert A. Heinlein