I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea Ballou

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou

Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel