Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— John Vanbrugh

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue is its own reward.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

— Claudius Claudianus

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

— Jeremy Taylor

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are not many people who work according to the law of virtue, but this small minority is the pride of mankind and every…

— Alija Izetbegović