Action Quote by Aristotle

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

— Petrarch

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint…

— Honore de Balzac

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

— Laozi

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which…

— Aristotle

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

— Elizabeth Taylor

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln