Virtue is not hereditary.
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. . .
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.
Virtue which shuns, the day.
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
Love's like virtue, its own reward.
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.