A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war s...
The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and num...
The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.
Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.
Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy,” - Ashley
For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Justice is the virtue we 'd rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.
It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.
When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
