According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their... →
Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven