The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.

There is no worse vice than one that imitates virtue; worst of all is the one that claims virtue: virtue signaling.

There are no vices more dangerous than those which simulate virtue.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also vertue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never. ORGON

Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice.