To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. - Confucius
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. - Herman Melville
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. - William Shakespeare
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. - Helen Keller
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. - Confucius
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. - Confucius
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. - Will Durant
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it. - Confucius
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. - Confucius
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. - Epictetus
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C.S. Lewis
