#virtue

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. ↗

— Buddha

#bring #come #control #discipline #enjoy

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#extinguished #heart #keeps #minds #moderation

Virtue is the truest nobility. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#truest #virtue

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#headache #intoxication #only #precede #virtue

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#been #few #folks #very #vices

The home is the chief school of human virtues. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#chief #human #school #virtues

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#always #bad #bad press #being #boring

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#blaming #culture #honors #intellect #our