The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Paul Martin

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Lucretia Mott

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Henry Ellis

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
Edward Dahlberg

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev