Character Quote by Aristotle

“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”

— Adam Smith

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist…

— Robert Ingersoll

“The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.”

— Annabel Lyon

“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather, we have…

— Aristotle

“Virtue: Pure Art ”

— Austin Osman, Spare

“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with virtue, a…

— Chin-Ning Chu

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at the same time the excess of the opposite…

— Blaise Pascal

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”

— Barbara Pym