Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Persevere in virtue and diligence.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
