Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance patience and compassion

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Do not be too moral You may cheat yourself out of much life so Aim above morality Be not simply good; be good for something

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

It s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you ll have to work with them

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

The imperfections of a man his frailties his faults are just as important as his virtues You can t separate them They re wedded