All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Impatience is a virtue.
Ursula Burns
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed... →