Philip Sidney Quotes

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The just man walks in his integrity

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Virtue is no empty echo.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.