Character Quote by Albert Pike

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

— Margaret Deland

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

— Agnes Repplier

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

— John Milton

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

— Swami Vivekananda

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

— Billy Bragg

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

— Laozi

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin