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Virtue is not knowing but doing
Virtue is not knowing but doing
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons