"The envious may die, but envy never." — Moliere

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest

Source: Pippa Passes (1841)

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Source: Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Source: Ethics, part 5, proposition 42 (1677)

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Moliere Quote