Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Virtue is harmony.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.