116 quotes found
“The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.”
“Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.”
“When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.”
“A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.”
“No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.”
“If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectacle.”
“When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”
“If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.”
“Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.”
“Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.”
“There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears and nothing virtuous but their tongues.”
“Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.”
“Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.”
“Virtue is health vice is sickness.”
“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.”
“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.”
