“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”
Stephen Vizinczey
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“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
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson