Advantage Quote by Alexander Pope

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded…

— G.K. Chesterton

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a…

— Immanuel Kant

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

— Anonymous

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

— Quintilian

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make…

— Marquis de Sade

The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the…

— Robert Dodsley

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

— Plutarch

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice…

— José Saramago