But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . ..
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream..
Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true..
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity..
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her..
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a….
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citi….
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous..
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues..
In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other..
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly..
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue..
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early..
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters w….
Virtue is the truest liberty..
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones..
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue..
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here..
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue..
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues..