virtue Quotes

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.