It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. – Voltaire
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means. – Terry Eagleton
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. – Thomas Aquinas
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there’s at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. – Sarah Hall
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. – Voltaire
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest. – Vernon Howard
I’ve been deeply influenced by Aristotle’s idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. ‘The control of the appetites by right reason,’ is how he defined it. – Tim O’Reilly
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. – Thomas Bulfinch
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary’s conspiracy against families and virtue. – Sheri L. Dew
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. – Thomas Paine
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. – Thomas Gold
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. – Simone Weil
I’m an entertainer. I don’t go round saying I’m a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. – Steve Coogan
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom. – Vincent McNabb
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. – William S. Burroughs
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. – Walter Scott
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. – Tom Hiddleston
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. – Wilhelm Wundt
It is safest to be moderately base – to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. – Sydney Smith
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. – Sallust
