Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.