He left a Corsair’s name to other times, / Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.

War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them...

Virtue is the wealth to be won.

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue makes for a cold bed.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing...

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured – this is the truth of the whole matter.

An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man’s imagination.

…those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may be sure, from the barbarous pleasure of making others as guilty and unhappy as they are. They...

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

Negativity an be negated through positivity only………so whatever the situation, always stay positive ………!!!Believe that You will never feel regret on this, moon will be there waiting for you………!!

The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the verge of understanding something large and important. It seemed to him that this...

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned…

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a...

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice...

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God’s statutes and nothing else.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

One can hear all that’s going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what’s going on in this house.

…a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not...

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune…

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot!

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error,...

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife

Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite...

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

I may have mentioned patience wasn’t one of my virtues. Actually, I didn’t have many virtues but patience definitely wasn’t one of them.

Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour of the girls of the little gang along the sea-shore. Mme de Guermantes...

One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than about our ‘good’. For previous thinkers about ethics, such as those who wrote the Upanishads, or Confucius, or...

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven