In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
James Oliver

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Jerome K. Jerome

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Sydney Smith

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
Sargent Shriver

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Ethel Waters