The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
