VIRTUE

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

John Adams

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Confucius

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

William Cowper

I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Virtue dwells not in the tongue but in the heart.

Thomas Fuller

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.

Ben Jonson

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

John Milton

To be better than the worst, is not goodness.

Seneca