Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat. , Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima. ]
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
Virtue knows no color line.
We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.
I find contemporary Holocausts against other species so unbearable as to make life itself a fundamental question mark. Are we a demonic, suicidal species? Can good conquer evil? And if so, when will that renaissance of virtue occur? This is truly "psychology today. "
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.