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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.
If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.
Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.
Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.