Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Benito Mussolini

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Marquis de Sade

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Saint Francis de Sales

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honor is the reward of virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero