virtue Quotes

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.