Virtue

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
Virtue
Vice
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
Virtue
Vice
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler
Virtue
Vice
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
Virtue
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
Virtue
Gold
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
Health
Virtue
May
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
Heart
Virtue
Moderation
Shame
Will
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
Government
Virtue
Act
Compromise
Enjoyment
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Wisdom
Virtue
Folly
Liberty
Madness
Restraint
Vice
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Thomas Bulfinch
Happiness
Virtue
Literature
Mythology
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Buchner
Strength
Virtue
Terror
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William C. Bryant
Virtue
Innocence
Remorse
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
Genius
Virtue
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton
Talent
Genius
Virtue
Man
Vice
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley
Virtue
Self