The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
I am known for always playing virtuous characters.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.
Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
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