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- Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. — Confucius
- 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume
- True virtue is life under the direction of reason. — Baruch Spinoza
- I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies… — Charles Brockden Brown
- Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail… — Markus Heitz
- The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out… — John Milton
- Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — Plato
- If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about… — Baal Shem Tov
- The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny… — Michel de Montaigne
- Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because… — Julian Baggini
- True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which… — Saint Francis de Sales