#virtue

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. ↗

— Plato

#love #philosophy #truth #virtue #beauty

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#citizen #democracy #dishonesty #enough #every

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human mind #imagined #mind #superstitions

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

#after #consider #energy #loss #most

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#farthing #having #knows #lost #vice

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#discourse #good #good company #sinews #very

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ↗

— George Washington

#consider #enough #enviable #firmness #honest

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

#few #few men #highest #men #virtue

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. ↗

— John Webster

#examples #happy #his #man #most