His Virtue Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he…
— Confucius
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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
— Al-Ghazali
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced…
— Charles M. Blow
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That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of…
— Johann Arndt
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Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He…
— Zhuangzi
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The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot…
— Zhuangzi
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
— Ben Jonson
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Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
— Gordon Lightfoot
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the…
— Confucius
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars…
— Confucius
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
— Joseph Campbell
Who Wrote These His Virtue Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 His Virtue Quotes as follows: