Virtue quotes

Discover the power of Virtue, as it inspires greatness, guides our actions, and shapes our character. Explore meaningful quotes that celebrate the essence of morality, integrity, and ethical values on our quote website.

For a warrior it is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

- Aristotle

While we wait for life, life passes.

- Seneca

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

- Seneca

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

- Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

- Seneca

Even while they teach, men learn.

- Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.

- Seneca

Count each day as a separate life.

- Seneca

All art is an imitation of nature.

- Seneca

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

- Seneca

You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind.

- Seneca

You are scared of dying — and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead?

- Seneca

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

- Seneca

We should love all our dear ones… but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.

- Seneca

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

- Seneca

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

- Seneca

I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent. No one can ever know what you arre capable of, not even you.

- Seneca

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

- Mencius

There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to practice virtue.

- Mencius

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

- Mencius

The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.

- Mencius

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.

- Mencius

Sincerity is the way of the heaven.

- Mencius

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

- Mencius

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

- Mencius

If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it – why wait till next year?

- Mencius

All men have in themselves that which is truly honorable. Only they do not think of it.

- Mencius

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.

- Mencius

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

- Mencius