Only the bold get to the top..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

I have to chose my words carefully..

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?.

The more things you own, the more they own you..

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete wit….

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions..

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues..