Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues..
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues..
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue..
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after ….
Reward is its own virtue..
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat.….
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue..
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct..
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong..
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue..
This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtful….
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs..
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune..
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.].
Beauty is the flower of virtue..
The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money..
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune..
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her..
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown..
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist..
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues..