Virtue (n.) is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency ; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.
Virtue (n.) is the parent and preserver of friendship, and without it friendship cannot possibly exist.
Virtue (n.) is a beacon-light: nothing inspires love, nothing conciliates affection, like it.
Virtue (n.) is not rigid and unyielding as iron; it is so supple that it expands at a friend's good fortune and contracts at his misfortunes.
Virtue (n.) is, after all, a man's best support.
Virtue (n.) is powerless alone to reach the highest objects, but may reach them in partnership with another.
Virtue (n.) naturally loves herself, for she knows herself and perceives how worthy of love she is.
Virtue (n.) is possessed by fewer people than wish to be thought to possess it — and those are the people who delight in flattery.
Virtue (n.) is what we love in a friend, and that does not suffer death.
Virtue (n.) alone, made the Chief Good, is the glamour of a name; were the virtues not productive of pleasure, who would deem them praiseworthy or desirable?
The Virtue (n.) should be the mistresses of all things, not the handmaids and subordinates of the pleasures.
Virtue (n.) robbed of any power of choice among external things is destroyed by the very people who wished to cherish it.
Virtue (n.) proclaims Regulus, tormented with sleeplessness and hunger at Carthage, happier than Thorius carousing on his couch of roses.
Virtue (n.) based entirely on pleasure is a foundation laid in water.
Virtue (n.) is extinguished the moment you reckon anything else a good besides moral worth.
Virtue (n.) lies in exercising choice among things in accordance with nature; to make all things equal is to abolish virtue itself.
Virtue (n.) eclipses all bodily advantages as the sun eclipses a lamp, as a drop of honey is lost in the Aegean, as a sixpence is nothing amid the wealth of Croesus.
Virtue (n.) was sought to protect nature, not abandon it; a virtue that guards one part of us and leaves the rest in the lurch is no virtue.
Virtue (n.) is the perfection of reason.
Virtue (n.) is given by nature only as a germ; the rest rests with us.