Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. Franz Kafka
You should reach the limits of virtue, before you cross the border of death. Tyrtaeus, Spartan poet
There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Frank Underwood exemplifies all the virtues we try to instil in our graduates. House of Cards US s1e8: Chapter 8, academy bigwig, Netflix 2013
Patience is a conquering virtue. Geoffrey Chaucer
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. Baruch Spinoza
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. Anatole France