The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
John Robert Seeley
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare