Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— Rick Hanson

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

— Osamu Dazai

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

— George Bernard Shaw

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

— Plato