“When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.”

“She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.”

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”

“Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.”

“There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.”

“There was a time when evilness did not exist, and there will be a time when it will no more exist, whereas there was no time when virtue did not exist, and there will be no time when it will not exist. For the germs of virtue are impossible to destroy.”

“Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.”

“The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen.
"I did not know that I was a virtue," she said. "Why did you not choose Innocence?"
"Because of her ignorance," they replied. "She knows nothing but that she is a virtue."”

“Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.”

“The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup—in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.”