The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
Algernon Sydney

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
William Shenstone

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
Stephen Ambrose

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Denis Diderot

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Mason Cooley

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
Francis John McConnell