Arguing Quote by Charlie Munger

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt…

— Charlie Munger

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert

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

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

— Osamu Dazai

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good;…

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

— Catherine Brady

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict…

— Sathya Sai Baba