Virtue

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
Genius
Thought
Virtue
Humility
Nothing
Supernatural
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
Frank Wedekind
Virtue
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster
Virtue
Country
Liberty
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
Virtue
Punctuality
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
Men
Virtue
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
Character
Hope
Virtue
Firmness
Man
Titles
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
Virtue
Company
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole
Truth
Lie
Virtue
Acting
Injustice
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole
Virtue
Vice
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
Age
Virtue
Energy
Loss
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Virtue
Mind
Virginity
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Thought
Knowledge
Virtue
Ignorance
Spirit
Superstition
Virginity
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
Virtue
Laws
Support
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci
Virtue
Honor
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal
Time
Virtue
Literature
World
Writers