Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them..
He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good..
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds..
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasi….
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve..
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow..
As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just ….
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post..
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily..
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of vi….
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue..
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is..
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others..
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul..
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking..
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue..
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice..
Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated..
Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue..
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue..
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically ful….