I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.
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.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
