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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Compassion is not a virtue; it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have, and it’s something we choose to practice.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings,Innocence sweetens my last black breath,Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God’s question and call.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.