Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Christopher Marlowe

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

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Thomas Malthus

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza