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Virtue Quotes by Saint Basil
- The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
- Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
- No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated…
- Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be…
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