“Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity”
Edgar Watson Howe
“Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age”
Andre Gide
“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
William Shakespeare
“Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous”
Wilhelm Stekel
“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
Confucius
“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”
Plato
“What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?”
Nikita Khrushchev
