Children Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to…

— John Stuart Mill

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

— Quintilian

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

— Christine Wiltz

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

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

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

— Anonymous

“Without temptation what value is virtue?”

— Ian Brady