The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because read more

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores