He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

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

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Virtue is praised but hated People run from it for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

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

Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind The second is to be kind And the third is to be kind

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.