George Santayana Quotes on Virtue
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They [the wise spirits of antiquity in the first circle of Dante's Inferno] are condemned, Dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.