It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya