Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

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