“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
Socrates
“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
“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”
“The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing”
Blaise Pascal