Character Quote by Aristotle

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”

— Guglielmo Ferrero

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Christine Wiltz

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

— William Shakespeare