virtue Quotes

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

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

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.