Character Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck

“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”

— Barbara Pym

“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.”

— Charles H. Cooley

“The life of active virtue is essentially pleasant.”

— Aristotle

“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and…

— Danielle Teller

“How noble is the journey of each human being, from Divine to dust and back again. How brave to enter a body and dance…

— Annie Kagan

“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I’m happy that I can achieve…

— Karen Traviss

“I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still hazily when…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“You should be grateful that you were even blessed for a moment. You have been rescued from your rotting corpse. You have experienced immortality.…

— Wynne Channing

“Your soul sees no missed opportunities. In reality every road you traveled offered up an experience as a gift, and as the complex fabric…

— Deepak Chopra