Character Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

— Victor Hugo

Virtue is her own reward.

— John Dryden

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

— Horace Mann

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to…

— Sophie Swetchine

Virtue is to herself the best reward.

— Henry More

“The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is…

— Jane Austen

She is a prude in her own defence ... under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the decay of her worn-out charms.

— Anonymous

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle…

— Jane Austen

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian…

— Jane Porter

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

— Silius Italicus

“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every…

— Immanuel Kant

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz