“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”
Lionel Trilling
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue”
Moliere
“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
