"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"Tenderness is a virtue."

"The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."

"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel"

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary"

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."

"True virtue is life under the direction of reason"

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"

"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?"

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.