“Virtue in this world should be malleable.”
Moliere
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".”
Sydney J. Harris
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue”
“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.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson