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

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

We have been but little molested, for we have not the things which most men value.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

When not prompted by vanity, we say little.

Do not discuss God and virtue. Do not discuss the homeland and its history. Do not discuss the authority and prestige. Do not discuss the family and its moral. Not discuss the glory of work and their duty.