I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

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

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

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