Behavior Quote by David Hume

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of…

— Edmund Burke

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice…

— Aristotle

Pleasure itself is not a vice

— Samuel Johnson

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Alexander Pope

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

— Rebecca West

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind…

— Thomas Merton