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With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
-Chinese Proverb
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
-English Proverb
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
-Joseph Addison
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
-Minna Antrim
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
-Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
-Aristotle
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
-Francis Bacon
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
-Charles Baudelaire
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
-Charles Baudelaire
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But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3
-Bible
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 24
-Bible
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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
-Elizabeth Blackwell
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.
-William Booth
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
-Francis H. Bradley
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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
-Thomas Edward Brown
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There is no road or ready way to virtue.
-Sir Thomas Browne
Religio Medici, I, 51.
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
-Luis Bunuel
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
-Edmund Burke
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
-William S. Burroughs
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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
-George Bush
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
-Samuel Butler
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Books about Virtue
