The Story of a Country Town, Chapter 30 http://books.google.com/books?id=rbwEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Men+are+virtuous+because+the+women+are+women%22+%22virtuous+from+necessity%22&pg=PA353#v=onepage (1883).
“The most virtuous women have in them something that is never chaste.”
Les femmes les plus vertueuses ont en elles quelque chose qui n'est jamais chaste.
Part I, Meditation IV, aphorism XX.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Marcelo H. del Pilar to the women of Bulacan (1889)
“Virtuous men alone possess friends.”
Les hommes vertueux ont seuls des amis.
"Friendship" http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/17/amitie.htm (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men.”
Letter to Benjamin Vaughan http://www.2think.org/priestly.shtml (24 October 1788).
Epistles
Context: Remember me affectionately to good Dr. Price and to the honest heretic Dr. Priestly. I do not call him honest by way of distinction; for I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as that would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them. Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic.
"The Emotional Factor"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Context: I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
How to... Love, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges (2004).
