Character Quote by Dayananda Saraswati

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

— Aesop

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

— Rick Hanson

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to…

— Immanuel Kant

“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

Virtue is its own reward.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be…

— Herman Melville

Virtue makes the world better.

— M. K. Stalin

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

— Thomas Jefferson