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Quotes about virtue
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. (Gorky Maxim)
Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue is the only true nobility. (Gorky Maxim)
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. (Gorky Maxim)
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. (Gorky Maxim)
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. (Gorky Maxim)
Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find. (Gorky Maxim)
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. (Gorky Maxim)
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue is too often merely local. (Gorky Maxim)
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. (Gorky Maxim)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. (Gorky Maxim)
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. (Gorky Maxim)
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden? (Gorky Maxim)
The time is always right to do what is right. (Gorky Maxim)
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. (Gorky Maxim)
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. (Gorky Maxim)
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. (Gorky Maxim)
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues. (Gorky Maxim)
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue that wavers is not virtue. (Gorky Maxim)
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. (Gorky Maxim)
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. (Gorky Maxim)
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. (Gorky Maxim)
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