The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
