Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition…

I don't want my son to grow up in a Britain that puts a limit on his ambition; I want him to be free…

— Nicky Morgan

I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

— Rex Orange County

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a…

— Ayn Rand

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

— James Anthony Froude

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

— John Locke

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call…

— Oscar Wilde

Successful villany is called virtue.

— Seneca the Younger

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

— Karl Kraus

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

— Anonymous

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

— Albert Camus

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the…

— Marguerite Duras

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

— Charles Dickens