All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance

I pay my taxes, says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward

Virtue is the only true nobility

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man

Virtue is too often merely local

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice-only the willingness to make it when necessary

Virtue may be overclouded for a while, but will shine at last

If you would return to virtue, you must shun depravity - fatherland and father follow, more than foreign infamy