virtue Quotes

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.