Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.