If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Virtue is nothing else than right reason
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
Successful villany is called virtue.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
