Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. Walter Bagehot
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. Thomas Carlyle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle.
The only reward of virtue is virtue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue. Juvenal
It is queer how it is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster. Rebecca West
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Baruch Spinoza
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. Isadora Duncan
Virtue is its own punishment. Aneurin Bevan
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, it lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. John Locke
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. Confucius
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine
Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. John Adams
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Joseph Addison