Orson Scott Card Quotes on Virtue
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He had no shred of fear or hatred in him.
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Odd isn't it, that physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist Oh they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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Smart, but not smart-mouthed; obedient, but willing to take the initiative; courageous, but not foolish; confident, but not boastful.
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Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
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Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life
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Each incapable of knowing the others virtue, because like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others