There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Ben Jonson
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Jessica Lange
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg