It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley

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

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Jose Marti

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri