With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.

I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?