If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Ichabod Crane: Villainy wears many masks, none of which so dangerous as virtue...
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
