Virtue

“The first is that it is not profitable for us at present to do moral philosophy.”

“That means I did something right as a person, which is ultimately the most important thing.”

“The aim of education is to produce a good man.”

“The core of morality for me, and I think for many ethicists, is the promotion of human flourishing.”

“To instruct the working class, to inculcate in him the love for work, virtue, honesty, to teach him his duties and highest rights; to awaken him in his soul the sentiments of dignity and civicism, necessary for a perfect citizen.”

“A contemporary hero is someone who brings the most happiness to the most people in society.”

“Practical rationality is being as one should be, being a non-defective human being in respect of those things done for reasons.”

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded.”

“I declare to you, to see such a mass of persons ... rise all at once, and express and conduct themselves so admirably, is wonderful.”

“What I call the Almighty God, even though He cannot be seen and cannot be heard, His virtue does not rest on His being unseeable and unhearable.”

“One might say that the moral system of this philosopher is infinitely sublime, but that it is at the same time simple, sensible.”

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”