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| 'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself |
| William Shakespeare |
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| All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. |
| Aristotle |
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| And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm |
| John Dryden |
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| As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. |
| William Saroyan |
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| Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue |
| Friedrich von Schiller |
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| He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude |
| Aristotle |
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| He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices |
| Lord Byron |
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| Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. |
| Peter Ustinov |
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| I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores |
| Moliere |
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| If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| 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. |
| Epictetus |
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