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Virtue Quotes by Saint Augustine
- 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…
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have…
- Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself…
- Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
- The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word…
- It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to…
- Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no…
More Virtue Quotes
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle