"The word virtue is as useful to..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.”

“Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.”

“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”

“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.”

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

“Nonviolence requires great patience.”

“Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.”

“There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.”

“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”