To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults not in avoiding them

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.

If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

What most persons consider as virtue after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

You can fuck anyone but when it comes to making love your virtue will be questioned.