Virtue Recognition Quotes

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.