| 20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
| 7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
| 3015 | The virtue of man is thoughtful foresight of future events [Chilo, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 7808 | Socrates made the civic values of justice and friendship paramount [Socrates, by Grayling] |
| 2126 | A good community necessarily has wisdom, courage, self-discipline and morality [Plato] |
| 23399 | Each correct feeling relies on an underlying virtue [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
| 5251 | Gods exist in a state which is morally superior to virtue [Aristotle] |
| 12276 | Justice and self-control are better than courage, because they are always useful [Aristotle] |
| 12277 | Friendship is preferable to money, since its excess is preferable [Aristotle] |
| 5964 | Zeno says there are four main virtues, which are inseparable but distinct [Zeno of Citium, by Plutarch] |
| 8765 | All is vanity, saith the Preacher [Anon (Ecc)] |
| 6004 | The cardinal virtues are theoretical (based on knowledge), and others are 'non-theoretical' [Hecato, by Dorandi] |
| 22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
| 6285 | Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth [Jesus] |
| 13556 | Every night I critically review how I have behaved during the day [Seneca] |
| 13562 | It is shameful to not even recognise your own slaves [Seneca] |
| 5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
| 7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
| 6030 | Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason [Galen] |
| 18447 | There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues [Porphyry] |
| 6826 | Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed] |
| 4016 | Descartes makes strength of will the central virtue [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
| 21482 | The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty [Schopenhauer] |
| 21481 | Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices [Schopenhauer] |
| 20382 | The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude [Nietzsche] |
| 20240 | The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it [Nietzsche] |
| 20244 | Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God [Nietzsche] |
| 20272 | Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not [Nietzsche] |
| 20274 | The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite [Nietzsche] |
| 14809 | All societies of good men give a priority to gratitude [Nietzsche] |
| 7151 | Courage, compassion, insight, solitude are the virtues, with courtesy a necessary vice [Nietzsche] |
| 4510 | A path to power: to introduce a new virtue under the name of an old one [Nietzsche] |
| 4515 | Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave [Nietzsche] |
| 4516 | Many virtues are merely restraints on the most creative qualities of a human being [Nietzsche] |
| 18291 | Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy [Nietzsche] |
| 22469 | Some virtues imply rules, and others concern attachment [Foot] |
| 7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
| 4274 | The modern virtues are courage, prudence, wisdom, temperance, justice, charity and loyalty [Scruton] |
| 20209 | For the virtue of honesty you must be careful with the truth, and not just speak truly [Zagzebski] |
| 23149 | If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver] |