Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend read more

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the read more

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.