Quotes about Virtue
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
— St. Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
— St. Augustine
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
— St. Augustine
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— St. Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— St. Augustine
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
— St Bonaventure
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
— St. John Chrysostom
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas