“Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue . . . let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.”
William Wilberforce
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.”
Ninon de Lenclos
“Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract”
Benjamin Franklin
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
Socrates
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”