"If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself."
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"Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice."
"It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."
"The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue."
"Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting."
"Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue."
"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue."
"Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice."
"Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous."
"Too much virtue can be criminal."
"Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue."
"The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument."
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice."
"Virtue is the first title of nobility."
"Birth is nothing where virtue is not"
"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."
"Is virtue something that can be taught?"
"For virtue only finds eternal Fame."
"It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted."