Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Sophocles

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire