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Virtue Quotes by Peter Kreeft
- For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was…
- If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
- The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this…
- The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there…
- Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
More Virtue Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle