Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own read more

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one read more

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.

The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.