Pastoral Resources

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.