Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant

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

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Paul Wellstone

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
Christopher Meloni

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
Christopher Meloni

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas Chamfort

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus

Too much virtue can be criminal.
Jean Racine

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
Rudolf Steiner

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton