This is because being “busy” is not a virtue; it only signals to others that you do not know how to manage your time or your tasks.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue is not hereditary.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful, you offer her great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem... What's love, darling, if it's not self-sacrifice?

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

"But at the same time, many of them deep down believe that they can’t make it. They don’t want any wealth creation to happen. So, they virtue signal by attacking the whole enterprise by saying, "Well, making money is evil. You shouldn’t do it.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts

It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.