To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal

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

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.