“Anything that's mended is but patched. Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue”
“Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition”
“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.”
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall. ”
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.”
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”