People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Denis Diderot

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
Sallust

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio Armani

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Lord Chesterfield

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Maximilien Robespierre

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Gilbert Parker

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Sophocles

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
Samuel Alexander

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Edmund Husserl

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck