Beauty Quote by Edmund Burke

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

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is…

— Aristotle

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

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

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

— Alexander Pope

“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

— Aristotle

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

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

— Moliere

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

— George Eliot