Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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 virtue except in mere appearance.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
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.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.