Character Quote by Anonymous

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

— Anonymous

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so…

— Isadora Duncan

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

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

— Quintilian

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

— Laozi