The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.