Self Virtue Quotes

He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?

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

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.